A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on
the majority always votes for the candidates promising the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that
a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always
followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's
great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have
progressed through this sequence:from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;from dependency back again to bondage.
--Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies,
private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
--Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to
improve it is largely a waste of time.
--H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It is impossible rightly to govern the world without God and the Bible.
--Unknown (probably not George Washington)
Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence.
It is force. And, like fire,
it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
--George Washington
Can government really be active and, at the same time, limited?
History suggests otherwise.
--Lew Rockwell
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
depend upon the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is
able to think things out...without regard to the prevailing
superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the
conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest,
insane, intolerable.
--H. L. Mencken
Never trust a government that doesnt trust its own citizens with guns
--Thomas Jefferson
A patriot must always be ready to defend his
country against his government.
--Edward Abbey (1927-1989) US author
Internet publishing can be more powerful than print journalism,
given its immediacy and lack of corporate or governmental filters.
--Dave Winer
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come
from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the
history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of
the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it
--Woodrow Wilson
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000,
'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0.
Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is
our government protecting us from in the drug war?
--Ralph Nader
Government employees (Bureaucrats) like to solve problems.
If there are no problems handily available,
they will create their own problems.
--George Van Valkenburg
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money
the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
--Sam Ewing
By definition, a government has no conscience,
sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times.
--George Van Valkenburg
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
--Charles De Gaulle
Once a government is committed to the principle of
silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go,
and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures,
until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and
creates a country where everyone lives in fear
--Harry S. Truman
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