“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
— George Washington
Author: George Washington
Category: government
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“The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.”
— Benazir Bhutto
Author: Benazir Bhutto
Category: government
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“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Category: government
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“For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Category: government
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“We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.”
— Melina Mercouri
Author: Melina Mercouri
Category: government
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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”
— Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Category: government
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“Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?”
— Rand Paul
Author: Rand Paul
Category: government
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“Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.”
— Tim Robbins
Author: Tim Robbins
Category: government
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: government
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“Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.”
— B. R. Ambedkar
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
Category: government
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“A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.”
— Harry S. Truman
Author: Harry S. Truman
Category: government
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