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Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

Otto von Bismarck

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Thomas Paine

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Milton Friedman

The law is [sic] a ass - a idiot.

Alexander Woollcott

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Fred Woodworth

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Fred Woodworth

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Woodrow Wilson

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Kelvin Throop

If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.

Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Edgar A. Suter

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.

Tom Stoppard

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Will Rogers

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Will Rogers

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Wilhelm Reich

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Wendell Phillips

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

William Penn

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least.

Thomas Paine

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Robert Orben

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

P. J. O'Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Lewis Mumford

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Richard Lamm

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Cullen Hightower

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Cullen Hightower

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

Sydney J. Harris

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

William E. Gladstone

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

John W. Gardner

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Larry Flynt

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Denis Diderot

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Elmer Davis

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Louis D. Brandeis

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Thomas Jefferson

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita

P. J. O'Rourke

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Lewis Mumford

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

George Washington

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

David Duchovny

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American.

Thomas W. Higginson

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Gerald R. Ford

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

John Ralston Saul

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

Andrew Johnson

Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Ralph Nader

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

H.L. Mencken

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

Louis D. Brandeis

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Alexander Hamilton

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Sam Ewig

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

Alexander Hamilton

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.

Hubert Humphrey

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Clare Boothe Luce

...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Henry Louis Mencken

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Alexander Hamilton

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

Edward Abbey

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.

Sir Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Hubert Humphrey

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Fred Woodworth

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Thomas Paine

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least.

Anon.

Don't steal. The government hates competition.

Johann von Goethe

What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

George Will

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act 1., Sc. 4.

'T is government that makes them seem divine.

Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Sir Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

John Updike

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

P. J. O'Rourke

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Prince Otto

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Woody Allen

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

Henry David Thoreau

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

Rush Limbaugh

You know why there's a Second Amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the han

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

"I'm the government! I'm the government!" -- Mike Nelson

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of u

The less government we have the better.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

This here's a government experiment....

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

Anarchy is better than no government at all.

I wish the Government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

'You CAN trust the government...ask an Indian.'

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Don't steal - the government hates competition..

Don't steal. The government hates competition.

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

Practice safe government, use kingdoms.

If the shoe fits it's not government issue.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.

An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.

An Elephant; A Mouse built to government specifications.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program