My favorite - what's yours?

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
---Will Rogers

Welcome to QL, SadieC. This is a friendly reminder to all FQ contributors to do a search first to avoid duplicate threads on the same subject. In fact, we already had a 2003 thread entitled "Government." I've closed the 2003 thread in order to allow this fresher thread to stand. http://forum.quoteland.com/eve...871935076#6871935076 ~Aire

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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.
~P.J. O'Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
~P.J. O'Rourke

Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life – and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.
~Shirley Temple Black

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
~Nicolas Walter

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.
~Robert Heinlein

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
~H. L. Mencken

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
-- Karl Marx

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
-- John Perry Barlow

A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

FQers, Please see my reminder edited into the first post on this thread. ~Aire

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.


Davy Crockett (1786 - 1836) US "frontiersman, soldier, politician"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."

On account of us being a Democracy, and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a Government for four years, no matter what it does.
~ Will Rogers, February 21, 1930