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QuoteWorld :: Government :: Sir Francis Bacon
Quotes by Sir Francis Bacon in Government category:
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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." 4.8125 average rating  
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order." 3.8571 average rating