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1. "Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays."
Other categories: Richness and Money -:- Various
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Other categories: Human -:- Life and Death
3. "Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
4. "The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
5. "Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Politics and Diplomacy
Aung San Suu Kyi
Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Power and Weakness
7. "Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty."
Charles Louis de Montesquieu
Other categories: Various
Henry Louis Mencken, "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
9. "Government: a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
Other categories: Power and Weakness
10. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Edward Dahlberg
Other categories: Power and Weakness -:- Good and Evil
11. "Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd."
Margaret Thatcher, "The Downing Street Years"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
12. "You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."
Boris Yeltsin
Other categories: Power and Weakness
13. "If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."
Art Buchwald (b. 1925), U.S. humorist
Other categories: Various
14. "Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."
Charlie Chaplin, "The Great Dictator"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
15. "Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. "Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done."
Peter Drucker
Other categories: Work and Laziness
17. "A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."
Pierre Corneille, "Nicomede"
Other categories: Marriage
George Burns
Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
19. "Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Other categories: Good and Evil
20. "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
Doug Larson
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
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John Ruskin
Other categories: Education
22. "There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."
Sarah M. Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"
Other categories: History and Nations -:- Woman and Man
23. "Every country has the government it deserves."
Joseph de Maistre, "Lettres et Opuscules Inedits"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
Themistocles
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
25. "In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes."
Mogens Jallberg
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
26. "Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
Mary McCarthy, "On the Contrary"
Other categories: Various
27. "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
John Updike
Gail Sheehy
Other categories: Success and Fame
John Updike, "Buchanan Dying"
30. "In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
31. "Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation."
George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
32. "France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."
Thomas Carlyle, "History of the French Revolution"
Other categories: History and Nations -:- Wit and Humor
33. "My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I am a free citizen."
George Bernard Shaw, "Arms and the Man"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
Salman Rushdie
Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Politics and Diplomacy
35. "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in."
graffito, London, 70's
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
36. "Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."
William Penn, "Some Fruits of Solitude"
37. "Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky."
Boris Yeltsin
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
38. "There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself."
William Pitt the Elder
George Bernard Shaw, "Misalliance"
Other categories: Law and Crime
40. "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
William Penn, "No Cross, No Crown"
Other categories: Pain and Tears
Andrew Jackson
George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- History and Nations
43. "An illiterate king is a crowned ass."
English proverb
Other categories: Education
Jules Mazarin
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
45. "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
Ronald Reagan
Other categories: Intellect, Judgement
John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton
Other categories: Power and Weakness
Benjamin Franklin
Other categories: Law and Crime
48. "Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"
Other categories: Power and Weakness
49. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Other categories: Power and Weakness -:- Time and Passing
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Other categories: Power and Weakness