"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."

Government, Nature, Humannature, Present

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Government, Society, People, Building

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Government, Decision

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

Government, Democracy, Principles

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Government, Reason, Slavery

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Government, Mystery, Washington

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Government, Men, Rest, Violence

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Government, Being

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Government, Politics, Power, Democracy, Society

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Government, Aristocracy, Democracy

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"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

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"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."

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"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

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"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."

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"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."

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"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."

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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."

"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."

"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"."

"A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance."

"Government is essentially immoral."

"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."

"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."

"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."