GEMS OF THOUGHT
GOVERNMENT. While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. — Washington. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. —JeffersonHuman law is right only as it patterns the divine. Consolation and peace are based on the enlightened sense of God’s government. —Mary Baker Eddy. Obedience is what makes government, and not the names by which it is called. —Burke. The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.— Goethe. All overmuch governing kills the self-help and energy of the governed.— Wendell Phillips.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 4
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