~ Government and Rule Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley

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[highlight-text]The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.

Lucius D. Clay

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[highlight-text]The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Blaise Pascal

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[highlight-text]Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

George Santayana

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[highlight-text]No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

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[highlight-text]We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

J. M. Parkin

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[highlight-text]When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

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[highlight-text]Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all if people don't want it they won't have it.

Prince Charles

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[highlight-text]Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

Henry Mencken

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[highlight-text]The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Talleyrand

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[highlight-text]While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

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[highlight-text]A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Woodrow Wilson

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[highlight-text]Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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[highlight-text]The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Walter Bagehot

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[highlight-text]The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Clarence C. Manion