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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
- 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
- Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Annual message to Congress on the State of the Union, January 30, 1961
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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