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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.
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Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
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Al Gore Quotes

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
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Arthur Goldberg Quotes

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
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Alexander Chase Quotes

... the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate. Now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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Will Rogers Quotes

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
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Michael Novak Quotes

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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George Pataki Quotes

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.
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Wendell Phillips Quotes

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.
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Larry Flynt Quotes

As a matter of fact, I brought Republicans and Democrats together to do just that in the state of Texas, to get a Patients Bill of Rights through.
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George W. Bush Quotes

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.
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James Bryce Quotes

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes

The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Quotes

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
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Charles Frankel Quotes

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

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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Author Unknown Quotes

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
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John S. Coleman Quotes

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

One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him - get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.
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George W. Bush Quotes

I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
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Richard Rumbold Quotes

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.
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Russell Chatham Quotes

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.
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George F. Will Quotes

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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William Ewart Gladstone Quotes

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.
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Richard Lamm Quotes

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes

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

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.
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Nicolas Walter Quotes

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

If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
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George W. Bush Quotes

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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Lord Acton Quotes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In an economic recession, I'd rather that in order to get out of this recession, that the people be spending their money, not the government trying to figure out how to spend the people's money.
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George W. Bush Quotes

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
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Werner Finck Quotes

Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes

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

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
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Woody Allen Quotes

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.
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Walter H. Judd Quotes

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.
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Jay Leno Quotes

Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
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John W. Gardner Quotes

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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St. Augustine Quotes

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon. It won't work and you can't fire it.
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George S. Patton Quotes

I know they understand the proper role of government. And that is that government can't make people love one another.
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George W. Bush Quotes

As long as there are only three to four people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have fifty to sixty in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
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Bob Dole Quotes

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
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Polish Proverb Quotes

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

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.
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Theodore Forstmann Quotes

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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William E. Borah Quotes

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

This sad little lizard told me he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh, people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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Robert Heinlein Quotes

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
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Cullen Hightower Quotes

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.
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Boris Marshalov Quotes

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

Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
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William Penn Quotes

If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.
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Kelvin Throop Quotes

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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Mark Twain Quotes

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.
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Author Unknown Quotes

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

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
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Simón Bolívar Quotes

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
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Woody Allen Quotes

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
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George W. Bush Quotes

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.
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Bob Dole Quotes