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Government Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of…
- To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt…
- Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the…
- The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of…
- Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
- In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in…
- A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by…
- Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for…
- In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
- When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good…
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
- The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of…
- A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts…
- Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
- A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts…
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
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- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
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