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It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

Other quotes by William Lyon Mackenzie King


Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Government is essentially immoral.

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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