Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Self Quotes, Government Quotes

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

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Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

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Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schoolsnot weapons of mass destruction.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

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The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

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The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

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State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.

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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

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That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

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A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

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There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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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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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

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