940 private quotes tagged government

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” — Denis Diderot

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“People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.” — Robert Half

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“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” — Lily Tomlin

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“The essence of good government is trust.” — Kathleen Sebelius

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“It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Governments never learn. Only people learn.” — Milton Friedman

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“You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.” — Chris Rock

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“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.” — William E. Gladstone

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“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.” — Robert Orben

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“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

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“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” — Saint Augustine

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“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.” — Larry Flynt

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“The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.” — Andrew Jackson

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“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.” — Alexander Woollcott

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“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.” — Wendell Phillips

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“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“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.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman

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“Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.” — Bill Owens

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“But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.” — Jonathan Mayhew

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“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” — Henry Clay

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“Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.” — Cullen Hightower

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