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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
It is not the voting that is democracy it is the counting.
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
Majority rule only works if you are also considering individual rights. Because you can not have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
You do not pay taxes - they take taxes.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Washington is a place where politicians do not know which way is up and taxes do not know which way is down.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
I am tired of hearing it said that democracy Does not work. Of course it Does not work. We are supposed to work it.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
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.