No man is good enough to govern
another man without that other's consent.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes it is said that man
cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted
with the government of others?
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Might is a fine thing, and useful
for many purposes; for one goes further with a handfull of might than with
a bagfull of right.
Author: Max Stirner
Ohio claims they are due a president
as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have
not had one since Lincoln.
Author: Will Rogers
Once upon a time, government
budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes
imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.
Author: Harry Browne
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.
Author: Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Our political institutions work
remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise
is democracy at work.
Author: Michael Novak
People come to Washington believing
it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned
that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine.
Author: Richard Goodwin
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.
Author: Walter H. Judd
Power tends to corrupt and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
Author: Lord Acton
Today we can declare: Government
is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people,
we are the solution.
Author: Bill Clinton
Under capitalism man exploits
man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Author: Polish Proverb
Washington is a place where politicians
don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Author: Robert Orben
We are going to tax and tax,
spend and spend, elect and elect.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have the power to do any damn
fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
Author: J. William Fulbright
We should all be obliged to appear
before a board every five years, and justify our experience...on pain of
liquidation.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Were we to be directed from Washington
when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
When government accepts responsibility
for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
Author: George Pataki
Whenever you have an efficient
government you have a dictatorship.
Author: Harry S. Truman
You can't give the government
the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad
- in fact, to do anything it wants.
Author: Harry Browne
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