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This government has been shameful.
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This shall be thy work: to improve conditions of peace, to spare the lowly, and to overthrow the proud. [Lat., Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.]
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Thoes people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tryants.’ William Penn
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Those are governed best who are governed least.- Thomas Jefferson
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Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
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‘Tis government that makes them seem divine.
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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so; To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorised, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished; It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the public interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolised, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured; That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality
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To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas, and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.
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To govern is to choose.
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To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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To make a bank, was a great plot state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
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Truth is the glue that holds government together.
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Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
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Unearned increment.
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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone carry themselves into practice.
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