There are but two ways of paying debt—increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I
would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that
is absolute, can do what he likes; he that can
do what he likes, can take his pleasure; he that
can take his pleasure, can be content; and he
that can be content, has no more to desire; so
the matter's over.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Pt. I. Bk. IV.
Ch. XXIII.
There was a State without kings or nobles;
there was a church without a bishop; there was
a people governed by grave magistrates which
it had elected, and equal laws which it had
framed.
Rcfus Choate—Speech before the New England Society. December 22, 1843.
| seealso = (See also Bancroft)
| topic =
| page =
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine,
Nor stirs my curiosity nor spleen:
Secrets of state no more I wish to know
Than secret movements of a puppet show:
Let but the puppets move, I've my desire,
Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.
Churchill—Night. L. 257.
They have proved themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local
party management.
Grover Cleveland—Letter to George
William Curtis. Dec. 25, 1884.
Though the people support the government
the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland—Veto of Texas Seedbill, Feb. 16, 1887.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
The communism of combined wealth and
capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity
and selfishness which assiduously undermines
the justice and integrity of free institutions, is
not less dangerous than the communism of
oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by
injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of misrule.
Grover Cleveland—Annual Message. (1888)
| topic =
| page =
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = Whatever was required to be done, the circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it.
| author = Dickens
| work = Little Dorrit.
| place = Bk.III. Ch. X.
| topic = Government
| page = 331
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = The country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.
| author = Benj. Disraeli
| work = Letter to Lord Grey de Welton.
| place = Oct., 1873.
| note =
| seealso = (See also Burton)
| topic =
| page =
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The divine right of kings may have been a
plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of
government is the keystone of human progress,
and without it governments sink into police,
and a nation is degraded into a mob.
Benj. Disraeli—Lothair. General . Preface.
(1870)
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| page =
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>A Conservative Government is an organized
hypocrisy.
Benj. Disraeli—Speech. March 17, 1845.
Individualities may form communities, but it
is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Benj. Disraeli—Speech at Manchester. (1866)
Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.
Dryden—Absalom and Achitophel.
L. 174.
Pt. I.
For where's the State beneath the Firmament,
That doth excell the Bees for Government?
Du Bartas—Divine Weelces and Workes.
First Week. Fifth Day. Pt. I.
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or
by the minority? By the minority, surely.
Emerson—Conduct of Life. Considerations by
the Way.
| seealso = (See also Lincoln)
| topic =
| page =
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = Fellow-citizens: Clouds and darkness are around Him; His pavilion is dark, waters and thick clouds; justice and judgment are the establishment of His throne; mercy and truth shall go before His face! Fellow citizens! God reigns and the Government at Washington lives.
| author = James A. Garfield
| work = Address.
| note = April, 1865. From the balcony of the New York Custom House to a crowd, excited by the news of President Lincoln's assassination.
| topic = Government
| page = 331
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>When constabulary duty's to be done
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
W. S. Gilbert—Pirates of Penzance.
Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die
uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.
What government is the best? That which
teaches us to govern ourselves.
Goethe—Spriiche in Prosa. III.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>For just experience tells, in every soil,
That those who think must govern those that toil.
| author = Goldsmith | work = The Traveller. L. 372. | seealso = (See also Byron under Labor)
