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Quote by Anthony Trollope
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. - Anthon

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. – Anthony Trollope

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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. – Anthony Trollope

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power
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Anthony Trollope
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. – Anthony Trollope

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Success
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Government
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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. – James Bryce

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Government

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be. – Jesse Ventura

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Government

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two dont trust the third one – the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization. – Shimon Peres

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Government

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. – P. J. ORourke

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Government

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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? – Pat Robertson

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If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure. – Lord Sandwich

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Brevity

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – Edgar Watson Howe

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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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Presidents Day