Without Government

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

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

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

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

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

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

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien