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It's every American's duty to support his government, but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.
~ Thomas Clifford

Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
~ Gerald R. Ford

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

All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.
~ Edmund Burke

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
~ Author Unknown

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
~ Larry Ellison

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
~ Michael Novak

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

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
~ W.E. Channing

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
~ H. L. Mencken

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

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

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

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.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
~ Paul Harvey

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
~ Fred Woodworth

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
~ Woodrow Wilson

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
~ Jonathan Mayhew

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

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

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
~ Nicolas Walter

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
~ Charles F. Kettering

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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