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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
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The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer and not of those who receive the trust.
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The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.
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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.
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The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
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The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.- George Washington
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but that which renders the greatest number happy.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan # Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries within itself the causes of its destruction.
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The bureaucracy that Nixon sought to use extralegally might be so used by a future president. Should, for example, the economic crisis continue to deteriorate or should a catastrophic war break out, a future president might be tempted by the readiness of a desperate nation to accept radical measures in order to solve its woes.
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The Cardinal is at his wit’s end – it is true that he had not far to go.
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.- Thomas Jefferson
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