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Government Quotes
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people We move toward a lofty ideal On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
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. (Quote by - Fred Woodworth)
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. (Quote by - Sir Richard Francis Burton)
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European) they are good or bad. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (Quote by - George Burns)
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. (Quote by - William A. Niskanen)
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. (Quote by - Richard Rumbold)
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. (Quote by - Elmer Davis)
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)