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Quotes about government
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale. (Autry Alan)
Public instruction should be the first object of government. (Autry Alan)
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. (Autry Alan)
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement. (Autry Alan)
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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. (Autry Alan)
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. (Autry Alan)
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (Autry Alan)
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away (Autry Alan)
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. (Autry Alan)
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. (Autry Alan)
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. (Autry Alan)
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. (Autry Alan)
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. (Autry Alan)
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people. (Autry Alan)
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all. (Autry Alan)
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. (Autry Alan)
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. (Autry Alan)
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. (Autry Alan)
The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. (Autry Alan)
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. (Autry Alan)
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles. (Autry Alan)
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. (Autry Alan)
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. (Autry Alan)
The less government we have the better. (Autry Alan)
Truth is the glue that holds government together. (Autry Alan)
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