![If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-wed-had-government-on-todays-scale-in-the-1840s-the-stagecoaches-would-ha.jpg)
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horse absurdity
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me. Bill Vaughan
horse athlete good-athlete
I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do. Wilford Brimley
horse government play
The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it. Walter Lippmann
horse fun athlete
Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that. Jon Hamm
horse pulled
The horse has pulled up very well and his shins are great. David Hayes
horse women cat
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. Norman Mailer
horse team wife
Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested that we team up. We got a lot of press in show business papers, and a number of offers...we eventually signed with Paramount Pictures. But I always like to say, his was the horse that we rode in on. That is my favorite recollection. Norman Lear
horse difficult
Horses are very difficult to shoot. Oliver Stone
horse color soldier
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
government firsts students
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
government evil people
The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments. Chuck D.
government air law
There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. Daniel Inouye
government television monopoly
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. David Attenborough
government law political
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property. Daniel Webster
government surprise surprise-me
I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me Andrew Cuomo
government
MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government. Ambrose Bierce
government people liberty
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. Andrew Jackson
government economic-sanctions serious
The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government. Allyson Schwartz