Famous government quotations

   Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.  Nice Word by Martin H. Fischer

   Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.  Meaningful Quotation by Elmer Davis

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.  Good Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

   For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.  Wise Phrase by Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letter

   This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.  Wise Phrase by Will Rogers

   The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.  Famous Saying by Karl Marx

   I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.  Nice Word by Alexander Woollcott

   If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.  Meaningful Quotation by Kelvin Throop

   Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.  Good Quote by H.L. Mencken

   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.  Wise Phrase by Winston Churchill

   Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.  Wise Phrase by George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Maxims: Education, 1905

   Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.  Famous Saying by William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

   Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.  Nice Word by Boris Marshalov

   The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.  Meaningful Quotation by Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954

   The plague of government is senile delinquency.  Good Quote by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.  Wise Phrase by George Bernard Shaw

   It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.  Wise Phrase by John Gardner

   Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus.  Famous Saying by Martin H. Fischer

   Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.  Nice Word by Cullen Hightower

   The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.  Meaningful Quotation by Cullen Hightower

   The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.  Good Quote by Sam Ewing

   When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.  Wise Phrase by Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966

   I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.  Wise Phrase by Richard Rumbold, 1685

   The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.  Famous Saying by Robert L. Heilbroner

   No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.  Nice Word by Abraham Lincoln



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