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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Government Rule

A difficulty for every solution.

~ Herbert Samuel

Herbert Samuel Government Rule

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Dean William R. Inge Government Rule

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Government Rule

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

~ Hugh Sidey

Hugh Sidey Government Rule

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter Government Rule

At certain times of grave national stress when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Government Rule

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

~ William F. Buckley

William F. Buckley Government Rule

The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.

~ Lucius D. Clay

Lucius D. Clay Government Rule

I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

~ Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson Government Rule

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Government Rule

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

~ Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan Government Rule

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Dean William R. Inge Government Rule

It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.

~ Philip Snowden

Philip Snowden Government Rule

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr Government Rule

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Government Rule

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

~ Rosamond Lehmann

Rosamond Lehmann Government Rule

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

~ Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith Government Rule

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

~ Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor Government Rule

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Dean William R. Inge Government Rule

The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.

~ Alexander Ostrovsky

Alexander Ostrovsky Government Rule

The king reigns but does not govern.

~ Jan Zamoyski

Jan Zamoyski Government Rule

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

~ John S. Caldwell

John S. Caldwell Government Rule

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Government Rule

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

~ Charles Péguy

Charles Péguy Government Rule

We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

~ J. M. Parkin

J. M. Parkin Government Rule

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

~ Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton Government Rule

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

~ Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman Government Rule

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Government Rule

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Government Rule

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

~ Thomas E. Dewey

Thomas E. Dewey Government Rule

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.

~ Ludwig Van Moses

Ludwig Van Moses Government Rule

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Government Rule

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

~ I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Government Rule

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

~ Marcel Masse

Marcel Masse Government Rule

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

~ Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes Government Rule

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Government Rule

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

~ Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal Government Rule

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Government Rule

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Government Rule
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