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| Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. |
| by H.L. Mencken |
| Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. |
| by Guy de Maupassant |
| Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. |
| by Wendell L. Wilkie |
| Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure. |
| by Thomas Erskine |
| Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. |
| by Aristotle |
| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. |
| by Albert Pike |
| A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions. |
| by Dianne Feinstein |
| The best man in his dwelling loves the earth. In his heart, he loves what is profound. In his associations, he loves humanity. In his words, he loves faithfulness. In government, he loves order. In handling affairs, he loves competence. In his activities, he loves timeliness. It is because he does not compete that he is without reproach. |
| by Lao-Tzu |
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