Government sayings

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◆ The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

- Alexis de Tocqueville99

◆ In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

- Cal Thomas99

◆ Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ Our success as a nation is not measured by how many years we have governed or how many wars we have won. It is measured by the quality of life which we have created for the society that our ideals were founded upon.

- Matthew Morgan99

◆ Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.

- Nikhil Saluja99

◆ Don't steal, don't lie and don't cheat. The government hates competition!

- Nishan Panwar99

◆ Don't steal, don't lie and don't cheat. The government hates competition

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◆ No matter who is president, God is still the king. Whatever human governments may do, as we live under God's rule, careful to follow his lead, we will see that it is His influence that is most dominant in our lives and in life in general. Human governments will come and go, but God's government will stand forever.

- 99

◆ Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government.

- Advocacy Slogan In Holland99

◆ I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

- Barack Obama99

◆ The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

- Patrick Henry99

◆ How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself? Richard M.

- Richard M Nixon99

◆ It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u.

- Nelson Mandela99