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Quotations by Subject: Government (34 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), quoted in Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

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