Famous Quotes About government

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

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

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.