Government Quotes

» No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

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

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

» Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

» You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

» Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

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

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

» 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.

» 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.

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

» 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.

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

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

» If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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

» Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

» To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

» Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

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

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

» Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

» 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.

» The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

» Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

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

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

» 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.

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

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

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

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

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

» It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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

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

» That government is best which governs least.

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

» 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.

» 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.

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

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

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

» 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.

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

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

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

» 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.

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