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“Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.”
“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.”
“China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.”
“In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.”
“The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.”
“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capa...”
“That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.”
“There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it's really going to work the relationship between the president and...”
“To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.”
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.”
“When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.”
“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.”
“The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.”
“Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”
“Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.”
“No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.”
“It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.”
“Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."”
