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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they have not had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that is just not what the founders intended.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can not live within its income.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.