In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ~St. Augustine
In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it’s a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. ~Theodore Forstmann
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras…. As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, “For a Less Responsive Government,” Cato Policy Report, 1996
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ~Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops. ~Kelvin Throop
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ~James Russell Lowell
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Education,” 1905
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. ~Benjamin Lichtenberg
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~P.J. O’Rourke
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. ~Abraham Lincoln
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ~Karl Marx
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ~Barry Goldwater
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. ~Benjamin Franklin
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
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~Will Rogers
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens – and then everybody disagrees. ~Boris Marshalov
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it. ~George S. Patton
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~Denis Diderot
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~Herbert Hoover, attributed
Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it. ~Cullen Hightower
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ~John Perry Barlow
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ~H.L. Mencken
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. ~William Allen White (Thanks, Bob)
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, About Anarchism
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