~ Government Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Congress after years of stalling finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...

Dave Barry

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have taking one with another no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

Henry Mencken

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Now more than ever before the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant reckless and corrupt it is because the people tolerate ignorance recklessness and corruption.

James A. Garfield

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Men speak of natural rights but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Calvin Coolidge

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Adam Smith

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Wilhelm Reich

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

H. G. Wells

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.

James Madison

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]...a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule that government by an elite group is superior to government for by and of the people. Well if no one among us is capable of government himself then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

Ronald Reagan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink somebody picking up the garbage good roads to drive on enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed when the year 2000 arrives our financial records will be inaccurate our telephone system will be unreliable our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words things will be pretty much the same as they are now.

Dave Barry