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Abraham Lincoln No man is good enough to govern another man with...
Alexander Woollcott I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy does...
Barry M. Goldwater A government that is big enough to give you all ...
Benjamin Franklin Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, s...
Chris Rock You don't pay taxes - they take taxes....
Cullen Hightower Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it....
Cullen Hightower The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad...
David Borenstein Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton wa...
Denis Diderot Man will never be free until the last king is st...
Edgar A. Suter Governments should not possess instruments of co...
Elmer Davis Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about...
Fred Woodworth Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings,...
George Washington Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it...
Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class is that it has ke...
H. L. Mencken Democracy is the art and science of running the ...
Henry Ward Beecher The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, ...
James Madison If men were angels, no government would be neces...
James Madison Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a p...
James Russell Lowell Democracy gives every man the right to be his ow...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To rule is easy, to govern difficult....
John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is extremely useful as a form of emplo...
John W. Gardner It is hard to feel individually responsible with...
Jonathan Swift For in reason, all government without the consen...
Jorge Luis Borges Democracy is an abuse of statistics....
Karl Marx The oppressed are allowed once every few years t...
Kelvin Throop If people behaved like governments, you'd call t...
Larry Flynt Majority rule only works if you're also consider...
Lewis Mumford The way people in democracies think of the gover...
Lily Tomlin Ninety eight percent of the adults in this count...
Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unf...
Louis D. Brandeis Our government... teaches the whole people by it...
Milton Friedman The government solution to a problem is usually ...
Otto von Bismarck Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see ...
P. J. O'Rourke Every government is a parliament of whores. The ...
P. J. O'Rourke Giving money and power to government is like giv...
Richard Lamm Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what ...
Robert Orben Washington is a place where politicians don't kn...
Ronald Reagan The best minds are not in government. If any wer...
Saint Augustine In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty b...
Sydney J. Harris Democracy is the only system that persists in as...
Thomas Jefferson It is error alone which needs the support of gov...
Thomas Paine Government, even in its best state, is but a nec...
Thomas Paine The instant formal government is abolished, soci...
Tom Stoppard It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the c...
Wendell Phillips To hear some men talk of the government, you wou...
Wilhelm Reich The fact that political ideologies are tangible ...
Will Rogers Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, n...
Will Rogers Ohio claims they are due a president as they hav...
Will Rogers This country has come to feel the same when Cong...
William Ewart Gladstone Here is my first principle of foreign policy: go...
William Penn Let the people think they govern and they will b...
Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and wi...
Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-mi...
Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, but we make a l...
Woodrow Wilson The government, which was designed for the peopl...

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