"In the long-run every Government is the exact……" — Thomas Carlyle

More Every Government Quotes

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• There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error… — Alexander Hamilton
• It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought… — Thomas Paine
• It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government… — George Bernard Shaw
• The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is… — Thomas Jefferson
• The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is… — George W. Bush
• The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson
• And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in… — Alexander Hamilton
• Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison
• In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will… — Thomas Jefferson
• It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
• The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try… — Bertrand Russell
• There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. — Milton Friedman

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