• But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 179 reads

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• But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 5 reads

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• By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 22 reads

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• Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 64 reads

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• Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 170 reads

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• Fear is the foundation of most government.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 62 reads

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• For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 29 reads

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• Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.5 · 10 votes · 118 reads

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• Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 0 reads

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• Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 198 reads

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• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 125 reads

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• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 179 reads

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• Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 21 reads

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• Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at la

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 59 reads

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• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  5.0 · 15 votes · 108 reads

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• Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 58 reads

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• Governments are not always right.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 78 reads

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• Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 0 reads

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• Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of th

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 47 votes · 92 reads

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• Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 131 reads

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• Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 105 reads

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• I believe in transparency.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 76 reads

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• I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the indivi

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 153 reads

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• I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.3 · 54 votes · 138 reads

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.6 · 46 votes · 73 reads

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• I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 158 reads

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• I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 193 reads

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• I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 9 reads

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• I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 16 reads

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• I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 99 reads

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• I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 12 reads

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• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 29 reads

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• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 12 reads

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• If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 18 reads

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• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 42 reads

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• In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 33 reads

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• In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 68 reads

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• In government, one actress is enough.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 107 reads

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• In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor a

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 183 reads

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• In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.

  

  Mario Draghi

  EconomistItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 185 reads

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• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 15 reads

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• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 191 reads

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• It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  4.2 · 59 votes · 155 reads

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• It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 192 reads

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• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 197 reads

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• It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 108 reads

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• It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 109 reads

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• It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 179 reads

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• It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 191 reads

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• Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 45 votes · 146 reads

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• Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 104 reads

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• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 16 votes · 57 reads

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• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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• Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 8 reads

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• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.9 · 41 votes · 108 reads

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• Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 177 reads

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• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 46 reads

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• No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 96 reads

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• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 155 reads

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• Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 39 reads

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• Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 93 reads

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

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 125 reads

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• Office without pay makes thieves.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.5 · 62 votes · 7 reads

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• One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 200 reads

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• One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 125 reads

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• Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 111 reads

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• Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 58 votes · 43 reads

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• Public instruction should be the first object of government.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 136 reads

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• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 2 reads

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• Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 96 reads

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• Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.5 · 31 votes · 42 reads

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• That government is best which governs least.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 7 reads

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• That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.6 · 39 votes · 55 reads

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• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successo

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 32 reads

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• The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 128 reads

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• The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 185 reads

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• The basis of effective government if public confidence.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 18 reads

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• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 125 reads

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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 140 reads

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