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Quotations by Subject: Government (34 quotes)

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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Address at Jacksonville University, December 16, 1971
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Congressional Record, April 15, 1942
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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), First Inaugural Adress, march 4, 1861
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We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
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We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
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The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the New York Press Club, September 9, 1912
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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address, Columbus, Ohio, September 4, 1919
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We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.: William Howard Taft, Address, Washington, D.C., May 8, 1909
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The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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