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 on government
Governments never learn. Only people learn. Milton Friedman on government
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell on government
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith on government
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting. Tom Stoppard on government
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. Andrew Jackson on government
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. Larry Flynt on government
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. Chris Rock on government
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. Cal Thomas on government
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. John W. Gardner on government
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. William Penn on government
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. Robert Orben on government
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 on government
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. Alexander Woollcott on government
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. William E. Gladstone on government
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges on government
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 on government
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 on government
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. Cullen Hightower on government
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton on government