We Americans live in a nation where
the medical-care system is second to
none in the world, unless you count maybe
25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like
Scotland that we could vaporize
in seconds if we felt like it.
?Dave Barry
A good history covers not only what was done,
but the thought that went into the action. You can
read the history of a country through its actions.
?Benjamin L. Hooks
The marvel of all history is the patience
with which men and women submit to
burdens unnecessarily laid
upon them by their governments.
?William E. Borah
A government is like fire, a handy
servant, but a dangerous master.
?George Washington
Government is a contrivance of human
wisdom to provide for human wants.
Men have a right that these wants
should be provided for by this wisdom.
?Edmund Burke
A government is not an old pair
of socks that you throw away.
?Boris Yeltsin
Too bad that all the people who know how to run
the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
?George Burns
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's
course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
?Otto von Bismarck
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to
give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
?W. E. Channing
A government that is big enough to give you
all you want is big enough to take it all away.
?Barry Goldwater
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
?Gerald R. Ford
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government
in his country. And for that reason no regime
has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
?Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Which government is best? That which
teaches us to govern ourselves.
?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think we have more machinery of
government than is necessary, too
many parasites living
on the labour of the industrious.
?Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is the art and science of running
the circus from the monkey cage.
?Henry Louis Mencken
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be
a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and
nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
?Henry Louis Mencken
The worst government is the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very
tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are
on top there is no limit to oppression.
?Henry Louis Mencken
Let the people think they govern
and they will be governed.
?William Penn
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
The loved and the rich need no protection:
they have many friends and few enemies.
?Wendell Phillips
