| Abraham Lincoln |
No man is good enough to govern another man without that o...
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| Alexander Woollcott |
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. ...
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| Cullen Hightower |
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it....
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| Cullen Hightower |
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the ne...
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| Barry Goldwater |
A government that is big enough to give you all you want i...
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| Benjamin Franklin |
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom exec...
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| Chris Rock |
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes....
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| David Borenstein |
Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrociou...
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| Denis Diderot |
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled wi...
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| Edgar A. Suter |
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and...
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| Elmer Davis |
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that ...
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| Fred Woodworth |
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accu...
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| Fred Woodworth |
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is n...
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| George Washington |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force....
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| Gore Vidal |
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a major...
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| Henry Ward Beecher |
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is governm...
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| H. L. Mencken |
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus fro...
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| James Madison |
If men were angels, no government would be necessary....
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| James Madison |
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who ...
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| James Russell Lowell |
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppresso...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
To rule is easy, to govern difficult....
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| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for ...
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| John W. Gardner |
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect t...
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| Jonathan Swift |
For in reason, all government without the consent of the g...
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
Democracy is an abuse of statistics....
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| Karl Marx |
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide w...
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| Kelvin Throop |
If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops....
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| Larry Flynt |
Majority rule only works if you're also considering indivi...
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| Lewis Mumford |
The way people in democracies think of the government as s...
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| Lily Tomlin |
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are dec...
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| Lord Acton |
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to gove...
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| Louis D. Brandeis |
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example....
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| Milton Friedman |
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as ...
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| Otto von Bismarck |
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being...
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| P. J. O'Rourke |
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiske...
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| P. J. O'Rourke |
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is...
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| Richard Lamm |
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want ...
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| Robert Orben |
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which w...
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| Ronald Reagan |
The best minds are not in government. If any were, busines...
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| Saint Augustine |
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organiz...
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| Sydney J. Harris |
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the p...
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| Tom Stoppard |
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting....
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| Thomas Jefferson |
That government is best which governs the least, because i...
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| Thomas Jefferson |
It is error alone which needs the support of government. T...
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| Thomas Paine |
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evi...
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| Thomas Paine |
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins...
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| Thomas Paine |
That government is best which governs least....
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| Wendell Phillips |
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose...
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| Wilhelm Reich |
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities ...
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| William E. Gladstone |
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good governm...
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| William Penn |
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed...
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| Will Rogers |
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's ...
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| Will Rogers |
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had o...
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| Will Rogers |
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in...
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| Winston Churchill |
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conve...
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| Winston Churchill |
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be trie...
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| Winston Churchill |
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by wha...
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| Woodrow Wilson |
The government, which was designed for the people, has got...
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