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  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)
  • The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

    Country   Weed   War  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books
  • The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.8, Modern Library
  • We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

    Farewell address to the state, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2004.
  • If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

    Adversity   Angel   Men  
    The Federalist no. 51 (1788)
  • I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
    Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
  • Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

    Freedom   War   Fire  
  • That government is best which governs least.

    Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1
  • Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

    Love   Life   God  
    Albert Einstein (1949). “The World as I See it”, Citadel Press
  • Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

    Weed   Men   Blow  
  • Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

    Peace   Honesty   War  
    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
  • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

    Peace   War   Government  
  • That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

  • Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.
  • It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

    "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.
  • Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

    C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

    Funny   Trust   Witty  
    Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks
  • It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

    Patriotic   Men   Law  
    The Federalist no. 62 (1788).
  • Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

    "Campbell's Comeback". "Landline" with Pip Courtney, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2015.
  • Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

    Life   Witty   Art  
  • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage
  • Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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

    Witty   War   Marijuana  
    "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" by Alan Greenspan, Penguin Press, Chapter 4, (p. 87), 2007.
  • Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

    Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
  • The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

    Freedom   War   Patriotic  
    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.
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