Government Quotes — Page 24

George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”

Home Government Cows

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”

Government Freedom Patriotic

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

“People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.”

Government Law Power

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.”

Government Simple Independent

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Ronald Reagan

Politician, Actor

“We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.”

Government Would Be Sailor

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Larry Elder

Political Commentator, Author, Radio Host

“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.”

Government America Practice

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Frances Harper

Author, Activist

“A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.”

Government Law Insecure

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.”

Kids Government Ghetto

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Thaddeus Stevens

Politician

“The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.”

Government Law Quality

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.”

Mean Government Army

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.”

Mean Government Political

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.”

Self Government Ignorance

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