Government Quotes And Sayings

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“If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?” 
– Unknown

“It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.” 
– Unknown

“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” 
– Unknown

“Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured. . . . ”
– Unknown

“The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.” 
– Unknown

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.  Liberty is a well-armed lamb.”
– Unknown

“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.  Of course, that is not true.  Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.” 
– Walter H. Judd

“To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.” 
– Wendell Phillips

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”
– Werner Finck

“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character.  The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.”
– Wilhelm Reich

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?”
– Will Rogers

“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.” 
– Will Rogers

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

“Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and irecognition that bad things happen to good people.  A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.” 
– William A. Niskanen

“Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.” 
– William Allen White  

“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” 
– William E. Borah

“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.” 
– William Ellery Channing 

“Here is my first principle of foreign policy:  good government at home.” 
– William Ewart Gladstone

“We are imperfect.  We cannot expect perfect government.” 
– William Howard Taft

“Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.” 
– William Penn

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.  No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.  Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.” 
– Winston Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” 
– Winston Churchill

“No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation.” 
– Woodrow Wilson

“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.” 
– Woodrow Wilson

“Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty — no contestant can have the whole pie.”
– Yossi Shain

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