There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
Glenn Beck

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
Glenn Beck

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato

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

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift