"Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important." Eugene McCarthy
“If it were not for government, we should have nothing left to laugh at.” Nicholas Chamfort
“The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government.” Henry Ward Beecher
“Two characteristics of government are that it cannot do anything quickly, and that it never knows when to quit.” George Stigler
“When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” G.K. Chesterton
“In government, the sin of pride manifests itself in the recurring delusion that things are under control.” George Will
“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain bad laws.” G.K. Chesterton
“The most terrifying words in the English language are, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan
“If I knew that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” Henry David Thoreau
“Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely expressed for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent busybodies.” C.S. Lewis
“If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.” Harry Truman
“You can’t even trust the dogs in this town.” Clarence Thomas
"If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments." G.K. Chesterton
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Here is another one for you... "If a man asks the government for something, He forfeits his right to anything." - Paul D. Jennings (Daddy)
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