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Government Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only…
- The less government we have the better.
- Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed…
- And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
- If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man…
- When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
- The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
- Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
- Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
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