Author Topic: ~ Government and Rule Quotes ~  (Read 8885 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Government and Rule Quotes ~
« Reply #60 on: August 17, 2018, 08:09:47 PM »
[highlight-text]In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Thomas Carlyle

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #61 on: August 17, 2018, 08:10:26 PM »
[highlight-text]Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #62 on: August 17, 2018, 08:12:03 PM »
[highlight-text]It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.

Philip Snowden

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #63 on: August 17, 2018, 08:12:59 PM »
[highlight-text]It is the aim of good government to stimulate production of bad government to encourage consumption.

Jean Baptiste Say

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #64 on: August 17, 2018, 08:13:39 PM »
[highlight-text]Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #65 on: August 17, 2018, 08:14:45 PM »
[highlight-text]As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

Dwight Morrow

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #66 on: August 17, 2018, 08:15:49 PM »
[highlight-text]The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

Richard Nixon

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #67 on: August 17, 2018, 08:16:47 PM »
[highlight-text]The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

Henry George

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #68 on: August 17, 2018, 08:17:51 PM »
[highlight-text]In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #69 on: August 17, 2018, 08:23:28 PM »
[highlight-text]Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.

Ludwig van Moses

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #70 on: August 17, 2018, 08:24:19 PM »
[highlight-text]Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #71 on: August 17, 2018, 08:25:07 PM »
[highlight-text]It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Ralph Inge

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #72 on: August 17, 2018, 08:25:50 PM »
[highlight-text]It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #73 on: August 17, 2018, 08:26:32 PM »
[highlight-text]When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy

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« Reply #74 on: August 17, 2018, 08:27:28 PM »
[highlight-text]When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

Edith Hamilton