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Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed. – I.F. Stone 1907-1989	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away. – John S. Coleman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal. – Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. – Tom Wicker	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second. – Jim Fiebig	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. – Unknown Russian	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. – Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases. – Josiah Stamp, Attibuted to Sir Josiah Stamp (1849 - 1941) HM Collector of Inland Revenue.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media. – Eduard Sagalaev	added by anonymous 13 years ago
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you're not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon. – John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. – Alexander Hamilton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises. – Henry Clay	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent. – Henry Commager	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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. – Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications. – John Herro	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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