Author Topic: ~ Government and Rule Quotes ~  (Read 8933 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Government and Rule Quotes ~
« Reply #45 on: August 16, 2018, 08:08:10 PM »
[highlight-text]The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

John S. Caldwell

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #46 on: August 16, 2018, 08:09:11 PM »
[highlight-text]How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #47 on: August 16, 2018, 08:10:02 PM »
[highlight-text]A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #48 on: August 16, 2018, 08:11:02 PM »
[highlight-text]The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #49 on: August 16, 2018, 08:12:20 PM »
[highlight-text]The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #50 on: August 17, 2018, 07:56:09 PM »
[highlight-text]No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #51 on: August 17, 2018, 07:57:08 PM »
[highlight-text]Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

Hugh Sidey

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #52 on: August 17, 2018, 07:58:12 PM »
[highlight-text]China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

Chou En-lai

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #53 on: August 17, 2018, 07:58:53 PM »
[highlight-text]That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #54 on: August 17, 2018, 07:59:37 PM »
[highlight-text]Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Bernard Berenson

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #55 on: August 17, 2018, 08:01:37 PM »
[highlight-text]A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Barry Goldwater

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #56 on: August 17, 2018, 08:02:14 PM »
[highlight-text]A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

William Ralph Inge

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #57 on: August 17, 2018, 08:04:12 PM »
[highlight-text]To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.

G. Norman Collie

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #58 on: August 17, 2018, 08:07:28 PM »
[highlight-text]I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

Harold Wilson

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #59 on: August 17, 2018, 08:08:59 PM »
[highlight-text]Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine