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• In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizens, Government

• In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Freedom

• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Protect, Maintain, Interests, Informed, Continuing, Liberty, Government, Sovereign, Only, Over, Enough, Well, Strong, Sure, Control, Freedom

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  Edith Sitwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Government, Tax

• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Future, Politics

  Tags in Government, Predict, Labor, American, Freedom
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  A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Nation

• Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  I. F. Stone

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Believed

• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Liberty, Constitution, Freedom

• As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Government

• Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Adams

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in People, Government, Religious, Constitution

• Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics

  Tags in Government, Protect, Limits
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  As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Anarchy

• I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.

  Harold Wilson

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Government, Rule

• Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Education, Religion

  Tags in Government

• When great questions end, little parties begin.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criminal, Deserve, Community, Government

• Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Knowledge, Power, Wisdom

  Tags in Government, Passion, Rich, Learning, Philosophy

• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare’s insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government’s insolvency.

  David Limbaugh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government