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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill. (Princess Margaret )
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard. (Princess Margaret )
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. (Princess Margaret )
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have. (Princess Margaret )
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. (Princess Margaret )
It is easy to rule over the good. (Princess Margaret )
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. (Princess Margaret )
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done? (Princess Margaret )
Office without pay makes thieves. (Princess Margaret )
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. (Princess Margaret )
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. (Princess Margaret )
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. (Princess Margaret )
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. (Princess Margaret )
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. (Princess Margaret )
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. (Princess Margaret )
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. (Princess Margaret )
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. (Princess Margaret )
The government is us; we are the government, you and I. (Princess Margaret )
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers. (Princess Margaret )
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. (Princess Margaret )
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. (Princess Margaret )
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed. (Princess Margaret )
In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter. (Princess Margaret )
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. (Princess Margaret )
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both. (Princess Margaret )
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