"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."

Government, Name, States, United

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"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

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"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

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

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"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."

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"Business is in itself a power."

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"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."

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"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."

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"Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business."

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"There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did."

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"Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world."

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"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold."

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"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."

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"To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware."

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