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Famous Quotes

"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
William E. Gladstone on Government

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."
Thomas Jefferson on Government
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill on Government
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson on Government
"Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington on Government
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine on Government

"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."
"You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."
"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."