~GOVERNMENT~
CAPITALISM
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." ~Winston Churchill
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." ~John Kenneth Galbraith
DEMOCRACY
"A tyrant is still just one. Consequently you can arrange to avoid him, if you like, to live far away from him, etc. But where, under a people's government, am I to escape the tyrant? Everyone is in a sense the tyrant! all he needs is to get hold of a mob, a majority." ~Soren Kierkegaard
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity." ~Irving Kristol
"The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week." ~Margot Asquith
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear." ~Alan Coren
"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." ~Laurence J. Peter
"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think." ~unknown
GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL
"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independance. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." ~David McIntosh
"Even if the system politely assigned me a guest-room in the attic so I could come along all the same, I'd still prefer to be a thinker who is like a bird on a twig." ~Soren Kierkegaard
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." ~Will Rogers
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." ~Thomas Jefferson
TO THOSE IN CHARGE...
"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." ~Henry Cate
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away." ~Ronald Reagan
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." ~Napoleon Bonaparte
"The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed." ~Claude Pepper
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." ~Mark Twain
"When things go wrong they like to blame the President, and that's one of the things that Presidents are paid for." ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." ~Nikita Khrushchev
"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." ~Lily Tomlin
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." ~Mark Twain
"They're far more anxious, by hook or by crook, to acquire new kingdoms than to govern their existing ones properly." ~Thomas More, Utopia
"Certainly a man who enjoys a life of luxury while everyone else is moaning and groaning round him can hardly be called a king--he's more like a gaoler." ~Thomas More, Utopia
SOCIALISM/ COMMUNISM
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." ~Winston Churchill
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." ~John Kenneth Galbraith
I LOVE MY COUNTRY
"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." ~unknown
DICTATORSHIPS
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." ~Lord Acton