Government Quotes - Page 21

• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Keys

  "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Home Economics, Employment, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists". Book by Anne Chisholm, 1972.

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

  Noah Webster

  Army, Gun, Power

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

  Charles A. Beard

  Life, Father, Struggle

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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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

  Happiness, Political, Pro Life

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.8, Modern Library

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• Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

  Amy Goodman

  Power, Media, Accountability

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• Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Average, Nations, Conscience

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1980). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Different, Onions, Layers

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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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ethical Standards, Political, Bases

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.326, Best Books on

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• The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Business, Military

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

  Jonathan Swift

  Slavery, Definitions, Reason

  The Drapier's Letters no. 4 (1724)

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• The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

  Norman Thomas

  Freedom, Names, Usa

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (1949). “The World as I See it”, Citadel Press

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• We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

  William Howard Taft

  Perfect, Can Not, Imperfect

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

  William Beveridge

  War, Men, Race

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 7), November 1942.

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• It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

  Robert Purvis

  Respect, Voice, Strongest

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• A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.

  Paris Reidhead

  Life, Change, God

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• There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

  Thomas Sowell

  Two, Doe, Lawyer

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• We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

  Unknown

  Years, Needs, Revolution

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• Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

  Ronald Reagan

  Doe, Fruit, Labor

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Hate, Ocean

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