"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher

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"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."

Alexander Hamilton, American Politician

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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

John Spratt, American Politician

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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

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"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship."

Mark Steyn, Canadian Writer

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"Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety."

Bob Wise, American Politician

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

Judgment, Opinion

"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

Cause, Fame, Instinct, Passion

"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."

Law, Justice, Neutrality, Truth, Observation

"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."

Wonder, Delight, Observation, Curiosity

"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."

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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

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"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

Instinct, Passion

"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

Age, Chivalry, Europe, Glory

"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."

Society, Adultery, Murder, Preaching

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

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