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Government
- "There's no government like No Government" --Anon.
- "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whisky and car keys to a teenager" --P.J. O'Rourke
- "I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." --Henry David Thoreau
- "I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat'." --Winston Churchill
- "Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't." --Gerhard Kocher
- "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all." --Adam Smith
- "A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program." --George Will
- "No government, of its own motion, will increase its own weakness, for that would mean to acquiesce in its own destruction ... governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself." --H.L. Mencken
- "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." --Gore Vidal
- "The one who votes decides nothing. The one who counts the vote decides everything." --Joseph Stalin
- "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable." --H.L. Mencken
- "Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced." --Albert Einstein
- "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus
- "It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free." --Machiavelli
- "Once you stop fearing the government, the government fears you." --Robert D. Graham
- "Society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." --Mignon McLauglin
- "The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting." --Charles Bukowski
- "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." --Max Stirner
- "Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." --Benjamin Disraeli
- "The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends." --Walter Williams
- "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." --James Madison
- "The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect." --James Madison
- "The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man." --Lord William Beveridge
- It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women. -- Scott Adams
- Swedens previous Minister of Justice amused the Americans on her visit. Her name is Gun Hellsvik, pronounced "gun hells week". -- Ronny Eriksson
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