Collection of Old Government Quotes

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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about ‘business,’ with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any ‘business’ accomplished in these circumstances?

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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

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Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.- George Bernard Shaw

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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think. ~Author Unknown

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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell quotes

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

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Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others.’ Winston Churchill

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Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.- Benjamin Lichtenberg

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Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l’assassinat, c’est notre magna charta.]

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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Do not criticize your government when out of the country;Never cease to do so when at home

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Does the federal government bear responsibility for what is happening now? … Should they apologize for what is happening now?

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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It’s knowing what’s right.

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don’t expect government to solve all their problems.

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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: ”Look out! They”re about to smack you around again!” Molly Ivins| Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory

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Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm’d; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop ’em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.


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