5,272 Quotes About Government






  • Author Thomas Jefferson
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    Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...

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  • Author Hilda Matheson
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    free citizenship may be less safe, in the long run, in the keeping of big business than in that of the representatives of the people. . . .Vested interests, in other words, may become a harder taskmaster than democratic governments.

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