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Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

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

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

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

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

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

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

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