Government(58)

"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

"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."
Cullen Hightower

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

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson

"Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it."
Richard Lamm

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

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
James Russell Lowell

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
James Madison

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison