Quotations About Government

Democracy:  The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. 
Benjamin Lichtenberg
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.  
Karl Marx
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.  
Barry Goldwater

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.  
Author Unknown
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.  
Robert L. Heilbroner
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?  
Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft.  Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.  
Will Rogers
Our political institutions work remarkably well.  They are designed to clang against each other.  The noise is democracy at work. 
Michael Novak
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
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.  
George S. Patton
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?  
Charles de Gaulle
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.  
John Perry Barlow

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