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Quotes about government
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. (Autry Alan)
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. (Autry Alan)
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. (Autry Alan)
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. (Autry Alan)
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. (Autry Alan)
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. (Autry Alan)
That government is best which governs least. (Autry Alan)
This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. (Autry Alan)
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man. (Autry Alan)
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound. (Autry Alan)
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. (Autry Alan)
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. (Autry Alan)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. (Autry Alan)
We have the best government that money can buy. (Autry Alan)
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. (Autry Alan)
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. (Autry Alan)
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. (Autry Alan)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Autry Alan)
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. (Autry Alan)
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work. (Autry Alan)
Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (Autry Alan)
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. (Autry Alan)
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. (Autry Alan)
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country. (Autry Alan)
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. (Autry Alan)
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