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| Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) | A society without an organized government would be at the mercy of the first criminal who came along and who would precipitate it into the chaos of gang warfare. | |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) | There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. | |
| Bob Wells | For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. | |
| C. V. R. Thompson | Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of Government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which kings or laws can cause or cure. | |
| Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) | I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | All governments require enemy governments. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. | |
| Emo Phillips (1956 - ) | I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, "If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government Pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference." | |
| Frederic Bastiat | Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. | |
| George Burns (1896 - 1996) | Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. | |
| George Deukmejian | The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. | |
| H. L. Mencken | Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. | |
| Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972) | Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. | |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) | How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. | |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) | If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. | |
| I. F. Stone | Every government is run by liars and nothing they say sould be believed. | |
| Jay Leno (1950 - ) | The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets. | |
| Jimmy Carter | There is a dramatic difference between what American citizens believe and want, and what our government is doing. | |
| John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - ) | You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. | |
| Joseph Sobran (1946 - ) | If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. | |
| Judge Gideon J. Tucker | No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. | |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. | |
| Richard M. Nixon | Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. | |
| Ronal Regan | Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- (Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986) | |
| Ronald Reagan | The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. | |
| Ronald Reagan | The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. | |
| Sen. Frank Church | I assume that a "Do not file" document can only be filed in a "Do not file" file. | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | Democracy is the most equitable form of government because, in it, greed and corruption are most widely spread. | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | It is a noble purpose of government to provide jobs for those of us who are otherwise unemployable. | |
| Thomas Paine | Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, and intolerable one. | |
| Thomas Paine | Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. | |
| Victor Hugo | I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. | |
| Voltaire (1694 - 1778) | In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other. | |
| Voltaire (1694 - 1778) | It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. | |
| WALT HASKINS (1931 - ) | It is rather amazing that those who believe that magic is a fake believe that government isn’t. - (Author "Comments USA") | |
| Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) | There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. | |
| Winston Churchill | The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. |
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