Government

(1205 votes)   There’s no reason that the government should prevent homosexuals from entering civil marriages because some religions object to the concept, any more than the government should ban atheism because some religions object to it.

Lisa Pampuch
newspaper columnist

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(516 votes)   Marriage is both a civil and because some religions object to the concept, any more than the government should ban atheism because some religions object to it.

Lisa Pampuch
newspaper columnist

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(473 votes)   The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(312 votes)   The people shouldn't be afraid of their government, The government should be afraid of its people.

Anonymous

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(294 votes)   Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(275 votes)   Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(238 votes)   The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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(226 votes)   When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(222 votes)   Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(217 votes)   My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(216 votes)   The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

William O. Douglas
1898-1980, American Supreme Court Justice

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(215 votes)   Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Maury Amsterdam

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(187 votes)   The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Congressman Dick Armey

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(186 votes)   A {tax loophole is} something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Russell B. Long

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(180 votes)   The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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