Government Quotes

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers

Country, Same, Baby

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

Free, Last, Until

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

Art, Science, Democracy

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

Since, President, United

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

Nothing, Genius, System

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama

Power, Two, Worry

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin

Once, Few, Class

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

Reason, Slavery, Governed

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

Society, Place, Act

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficult, Easy, Rule

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Country, Two, Honest

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

Next, Worst, Anarchy

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
Robert Half

Live, Try, Within

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison

Men, Necessary, Angels

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
P. J. O'Rourke

Good, Feeling, Looking

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

Justice, Absence, Robbery

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.
Louis D. Brandeis

Law, Become, Whole

Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

Democracy, Oppressor, Gives

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics, Useful, Employment

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

Democracy, Voting, Counting

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson

Power, Agents, Sovereign

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.
Larry Flynt

Voting, Rights, Individual

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris Rock

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas

Change, Society, Live

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