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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. - James Abram Garfield Fellow-citizens: Clouds and darkness are around Him; His pavilion is dark waters and thick clouds; justice and judgment are the establishment of His throne; mercy and truth shall go before His face! Fellow citizens! God reigns and the Government at Washington lives. - James Abram Garfield, in an address from the New York Customs House concerning President Lincoln's assassination When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one. - Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, Pirates of Penzance The duties of government are paternal. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the government of men, a great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by clear discernment and impartial justice, which pays no respect to persons. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Which is the best government? That which teaches self-government. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III) For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those that toil. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 372) I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed. - Phil Gramm Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. - Alexander Hamilton Perish commerce. Let the constitution live! - George Hardinge, Debate on the Traitorous Correspondence Bill A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. - Augustus William Hare A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only tolerated, but encouraged. - William Henry Harrison, in his inaugural address All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart. - Hugh Reginald Haweis All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy. - Benjamin Robert Haydon Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. - Abram Stevens Hewitt, Democratic Platform of 1884 How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. - Adolph Hitler The surest way of governing, both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogative. - Thomas Hughes An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity. - David Hume Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few. - David Hume There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government. - Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle, (from The Sketch Book) No sooner does he hear any of this brothers mention reform or retrenchment, than up he jumps. - Washington Irving, The Sketch Book--John Bull All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil. - Hermann Jacobi Displaying page 5 of 12 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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