Government(58)

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."
Lord Acton

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
Saint Augustine

"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck

"Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs."
David Borenstein

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
Jorge Luis Borges

"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

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."
Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill