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Quotations by Subject: Government (34 quotes)

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If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.: George Gilder
I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.: Stephen Colbert, Speech to White House Correspondent's Dinner, April 30, 2006
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
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A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987
Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Civil Disobedience
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress, August 12, 1974
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