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- Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
- Stephen Price
- I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), 1850
- Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- Dictatorship is without a doubt the most satisfying form of government...as long as I'm the dictator.
- Phil Stromer 11/9/90-
- A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to James Madison, 1787
- ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), (Diary, 1786)
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
- Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
- The less government we have the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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