Government proverbs
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- Thomas Jefferson99◆ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
- Carl Sagan99◆ The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher99◆ The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
- Mark Twain99◆ Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Frank Herbert99◆ The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill99◆ Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan99◆ This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln99◆ The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
- Ronald Reagan99◆ Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
- Pratibha Patil99◆ Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington99◆ We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
- Ayn Rand99◆ It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey99◆ Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine99◆ I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
- Napoleon Bonaparte99
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