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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. (Princess Margaret )
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. (Princess Margaret )
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (Princess Margaret )
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away (Princess Margaret )
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. (Princess Margaret )
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. (Princess Margaret )
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. (Princess Margaret )
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. (Princess Margaret )
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. (Princess Margaret )
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people. (Princess Margaret )
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all. (Princess Margaret )
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. (Princess Margaret )
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. (Princess Margaret )
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. (Princess Margaret )
The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. (Princess Margaret )
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. (Princess Margaret )
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles. (Princess Margaret )
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. (Princess Margaret )
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. (Princess Margaret )
The less government we have the better. (Princess Margaret )
Truth is the glue that holds government together. (Princess Margaret )
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