Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Government Quotes, Hard Quotes

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

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For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.

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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

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It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

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Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

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Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

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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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What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

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Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

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The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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I've never needed government to hold my hand.

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

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You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

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