Without Government

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers