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The basis of effective government if public confidence. (Princess Margaret )
The supply of government exceeds demand. (Princess Margaret )
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. (Princess Margaret )
Any cook should be able to run the country. (Princess Margaret )
Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice. (Princess Margaret )
A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (Princess Margaret )
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. (Princess Margaret )
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man. (Princess Margaret )
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. (Princess Margaret )
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. (Princess Margaret )
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. (Princess Margaret )
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. (Princess Margaret )
Every country has the government it deserves. (Princess Margaret )
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees. (Princess Margaret )
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. (Princess Margaret )
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. (Princess Margaret )
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. (Princess Margaret )
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. (Princess Margaret )
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it. (Princess Margaret )
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. (Princess Margaret )
The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. (Princess Margaret )
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