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Letter "T" » the government
«Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.»
«It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.»
Author: Robert H. Jackson
| Keywords:
citizen, Citizens for, error, falling, function, government, the government
«Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.»
Author: Joseph Heller
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altogether, field, frankly, get out, industry, left field, private, Private industry, the government, The Industry
«It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for»
«Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
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clocks, cure, depend, depend upon, endeavor, ever so, governments, ill, motion, moved, ruined, spoil, the government, warp, warped, warping, wherefore
«Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people»
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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balance, balancing, degeneration, dramatic, government, healthiest, healthy, kind of, nation, prevents, the government, The People, tyrannies, tyranny
«Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Government
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ashamed, decent, the government
«A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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After the Revolution, fault, revolution, the government
«It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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Government
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dangerous, government, the government, wrong
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