George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Lying Quotes, Government Quotes

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

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I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Believe Quotes , Government Quotes

We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Journey Quotes , Government Quotes

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Country Quotes , Government Quotes

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Children Quotes , Government Quotes

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.

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Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Issues Quotes

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Language Quotes

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Government Quotes

The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Home Quotes , Government Quotes

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Military Quotes , Government Quotes

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Witty Quotes , Government Quotes

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Government Quotes

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Years Quotes

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

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