#government

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. ↗

— Voltaire

#benefit #government #make #nation #other

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

#democracy #form #government #ideal #tempered

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

— Voltaire

#benevolent #best #government #occasional #tempered

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

#democracy #form #government #ideal #tempered

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs. ↗

— Scott Walker

#governments #i #jobs #like #mitt

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#government #industrial #monopolies #must #oligarchy

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#against #because #congregation #discriminate #doing

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#did #does #fear #government #grant

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets? ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#any #coming #concept #crazy #everyone

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#last #newspapers #politicians #running #thing