government

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...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

2.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

- O'Rourke, P. J.

3.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

- Calhoun, John C.

4.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

- King, Florence

5.

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

- Truman, Harry S

6.

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contendà The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.

Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

- Lever, Leslie Baron

8.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

- Bertrand Russell

9.

Fear is the foundation of most government.

- Adams, John

10.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

- George W. Bush

11.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

- Dave Barry

12.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

- Justice Anthony Kennedy

14.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

- George Washington

15.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

- Marcos, Ferdinand E.

16.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

- Chester Bowles

17.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

- Henry Commager

18.

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.

- Heinlein, Robert

19.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

- George W. Bush

20.

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.