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Government
«If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.»
Author: Fred Woodworth
| About:
Goodness,
Government
| Keywords:
composed, fundamentally, human beings
«Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen»
Author: John Marshall
(Founder)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
almost all, citizen, possessed, worthless
«If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
charge, desert, Federal, federal government, government in, in charge, Sahara, Sahara Desert, sand, shortage, The Federal
«If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| About:
Circumstances,
Government
| Keywords:
Army of, Body of, formidable, inferior, liberties, oblige
«In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
administered, administering, administers, difficulty, enable, framing, governed, oblige
«In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
multitude, Republican, restrain, The Voice
«If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
administration, awkward, sooner or later
«In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Government,
History,
War
| Keywords:
governments, hatched, hatches, hatching, independent, interests, pernicious
«If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
illegal, selling