In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Will Rogers

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower

That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton