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Government Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
- The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice.
- The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is…
- Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are…
- I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least…
- The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions…
- The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
- Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
- Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
- Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently -…
- Why haven't women got labels on their foreheads saying, Danger: Government Health Warning: Women can be dangerous to your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida