The essence of good government is trust.
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Kathleen Sebelius
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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Benjamin Franklin
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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Winston Churchill
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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William Penn
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves
and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Larry Flynt
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
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Thomas Paine
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking,
honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Lily Tomlin
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
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Henry Clay
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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Will Rogers
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
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Cullen Hightower
That government is best which governs least.
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Henry David Thoreau
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities,
treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
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Dirk Kempthorne
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility
for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
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Fred Woodworth
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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George Washington
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Thomas Paine
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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William E. Gladstone
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
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Alexander Woollcott
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Denis Diderot
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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Abraham Lincoln
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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Will Rogers
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government
becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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Louis D. Brandeis
A government of laws, and not of men.
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Author Unknown
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
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Robert Half
He was the 16th president of the United States, who guided his country through the most devastating experience
in its national history, the Civil War. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president.
He is remembered for his involvement in the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, at about 10:15 P.M., while attending a play at Ford's Theatre, president Lincoln was shot in the back of his head.
(1809 - 1865)
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
~ Charles F. Kettering
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham LincolnMore Proverbs
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