Government(58)

"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
Wendell Phillips

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
Ronald Reagan

"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

"You don't pay taxes - they take taxes."
Chris Rock

"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

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

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
Tom Stoppard

"Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens."
Edgar A. Suter

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
Jonathan Swift