government Quotes

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

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

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

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

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.