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That government is best which governs least.


Thomas Paine

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THOMAS A. EDISON That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approv...
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THOMAS A. EDISON Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...
THOMAS PAINE The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly...
H.N. BRAILSFORD Paine was a grand fe...
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THOMAS CLIO RICKMAN The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
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HARVEY KAYE The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
JOHN D. MACDONALD The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
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THOMAS PAINE The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
JAMES MONROE The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscri...
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JOHN TYLER A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness o...
JAMES MADISON He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venali...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
JOHN UPDIKE Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtes...
CASS SUNSTEIN Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life...
GEORGE HOADLY Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life...
GEORGE HOADLY Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creatio...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the crea...
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WALT WHITMAN Paine suffered then,...
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ALEXANDRA ROBBINS As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after...
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER He is most powerful who governs himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT 'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.
THOMAS FULLER, M.D. 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
THOMAS FULLER It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
GEORGE HERBERT The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explo...
JESUS ZAMORA BONILLA The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh...
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MICHAEL SHIFTER The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is th...
G.K. CHESTERTON Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
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OSCAR FERNANDES That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
UNKNOWN We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.
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EDMUND BURKE There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
EDMUND BURKE The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
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TEODORO PETKOFF Imagination governs the world.
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PATTI SMITH He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the le...
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JOSEPH STORY But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
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THOMAS PAINE It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible...
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THOMAS PAINE The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...
THOMAS PAINE