Society...Institutions...GOVERNMENT
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1251 H
“Lord, the money we do spend on government and it’s not one bit better than the government
we got for one third the money twenty years ago.” — Will Rogers
GOVERNMENT, Effectiveness
1252 C
“The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under
the government of bad men.” — Plato
GOVERNMENT, Punishment, Politics, Procrastination, Pessimism
1253 P
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.”
— Sophocles
GOVERNMENT, Law, Politics
1254
“When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.” — Cornelius Tacitus
GOVERNMENT, Law
1255 H
“Everything now seems to be under federal control except the national debt and the budget.” — Robert Hutchings Goddard
GOVERNMENT, Authority
1256
“Those who invented the law of supply and demand have no right to complain when the law works against their interest.” — Anwar Sadat
GOVERNMENT, Sciences
1257 A
“The idea of imposing restrictions on a free economy to assure freedom of competition is like
breaking a man’s leg to make him run faster.” — N. R. Sayre
GOVERNMENT, Competition
1258
“A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.”
— Andrew William Mellon
GOVERNMENT, Wealth
1259
“The art of governing consists in not allowing men to grow old in their jobs.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
GOVERNMENT, Age, Procrastination
1260 H
“The taxpayer - that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take
a civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan
GOVERNMENT, Law
1261
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” — E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
GOVERNMENT, Optimism, Decision Making
1262 C
“Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others.”
— Sir Winston Churchill
GOVERNMENT, War & Peace
1263
“In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.”
— Walter Lippmann
GOVERNMENT, Politics
1264
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible and his inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Democracy both liberates and constrains.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
GOVERNMENT , Hate, Law
1265
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
GOVERNMENT, Procrastination
1266
“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
— Aristotle
GOVERNMENT, Hate
1267
“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.” — Demosthenes
GOVERNMENT, War & Peace, Honor
1268
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.” — W. Somerset Maugham
GOVERNMENT, Wealth
1269
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.” — Albert Camus
GOVERNMENT, Excellence, Potential
1270
“Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.”
— Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
GOVERNMENT, Excellence
1271 P
“In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little
complaint but much suffering.” — Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
GOVERNMENT, Pessimism, Sadness
1272
“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.” — Abraham Lincoln
GOVERNMENT, Goodness, Authority, War & Peace
1273
“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom ‘to’ and freedom ‘from’.”
— Marilyn vos Savant
GOVERNMENT, Law
1274 P
“Not free from what, but free for what?” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
GOVERNMENT, Potential
1275
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
— John Stuart Mill
GOVERNMENT, Greed, Charity
1276
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
— Marcus Tulius Cicero
GOVERNMENT, Law
1277
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
GOVERNMENT, War & Peace, Courage, Fear
1278
“Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.” — David Lloyd George
GOVERNMENT, Habit
1279
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
GOVERNMENT, Principles
1280
“Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.”
— Marcus Tulius Cicero
GOVERNMENT, Hate
1281
“Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.”
— Andre Mairaux
GOVERNMENT, War & Peace
1282
“We [Communist Party] must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in the language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.”
— Nikolai Lenin
GOVERNMENT, Dishonesty, Hate
1283 A
“Technocracy is just communism with spats.” — John C. Stevens
GOVERNMENT, Change
GOVERNMENT Cross-References
Wealth—28, 51 • Planning—176 •
Prudence—231 • Procrastination—264 • Pessimism—283 •
Errors—315 • Failure—386 • Effectiveness—475 •
Knowledge—541 • Innovation—741 • Charity—805-806 •
Hate—849 • Business—1040 • Arts—1076 •
Authority—1112, 1118, 1121 • Accountability—1161 •
Politics—1236-1239, 1243, 1245-1246, 1248-1250 • Law—1290, 1292-294, 1297, 1299-1302, 1304, 1312 •
War & Peace—1321, 1335 • Family & Friends—1370
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