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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Government is essentially immoral.

- Herbert Spencer

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

- Alexis Herman

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

- Dennis Kozlowski

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

- Joseph Story

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

- Timothy McVeigh

However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .

- Bob Riley