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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.
Author: Richard Lamm
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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.
Author: Boris Marshalov
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Author: Tom Stoppard
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
Author: Nicolas Walter
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If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.
Author: George F. Will
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Author: Alexander Woollcott
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The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.
Author: John Caldwell
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He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.
Author: Grover Cleveland
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The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Author: Gerald R. Ford
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Author: James A. Garfield
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A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Author: Barry Goldwater
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.
Author: Herbert Henry Lehman
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Every country has the government it deserves.
Author: Joseph De Maistre
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Author: William Penn
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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Author: James Reston
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Author: Will Rogers
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Author: Harry S. Truman
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Author: Barry M. Goldwater
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Author: Sydney J. Harris
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A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Author: Sir Alec Issigonis
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Author: Elmer Davis
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Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
Author: Werner Finck
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Author: William Ewart Gladstone
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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.
Author: Fred Woodworth
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Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
Author: Bernhard Berenson
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The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
Author: James F. Byrnes
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
Author: Edmund Muske
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Author: Thomas Paine
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Author: Lord Acton
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
Author: David Borenstein
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In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
Author: Theodore Forstmann
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Author: Will Rogers
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Author: Plato
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.
Author: George Washington
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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Author: Michael Novak
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The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Author: James Madison
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