Thomas Paine on Government
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008That government is best which governs least.
- Thomas Paine
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Wilhelm Reich on Government
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008The 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
Cullen Hightower on Government
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
- Cullen Hightower
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Government
Saturday, June 7th, 2008To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes, Famous Quotes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Government
James Madison on Government
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- James Madison
Denis Diderot on Government
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- Denis Diderot
Sydney J. Harris on Government
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
- Sydney J. Harris
Thomas Paine on Government
Friday, March 28th, 2008The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Thomas Paine
Louis D. Brandeis on Government
Monday, March 17th, 2008Our 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.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Cullen Hightower on Government
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.
- Cullen Hightower
