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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Written by Will Rogers
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Written by Milton Friedman
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Written by Thomas Paine
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Written by Ronald Reagan
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Written by Jack Anderson
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Written by Frank Herbert
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Written by Ronald Reagan
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Written by George Will
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Written by Will Rogers
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Written by Tom Robbins
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Written by Orrin Hatch
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Written by Frank Lloyd Wright
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Written by Ambrose Bierce
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Written by Norman Cousins
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
Written by George Deukmejian
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Written by Lewis Mumford
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.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Written by P. J. O'Rourke
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Written by Louis D. Brandeis
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Written by Richard Lamm
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Written by John W. Gardner
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Written by Thomas Paine
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.
Written by Wendell Phillips
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Written by Jonathan Swift
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Written by Fred Woodworth
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Written by James Madison

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