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
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu
A fool and his money are soon elected.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
Paulo Coelho
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
