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In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

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

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.

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

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

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

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production of bad government to encourage consumption.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.