Without Government

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner