Business Quote by Dalton Trumbo

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that.…

— Dalton Trumbo

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

— Dalton Trumbo

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of…

— Stuart Wilde

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a…

— Christopher Bollen

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust…

— Fred Woodworth

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear,…

— Albert Pike

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

— John Lanchester

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of…

— Thomas Frank

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

— Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are…

— David Frum