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1. "Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays."

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Other categories: Richness and Money -:- Various

2. "... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind."

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."

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Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Politics and Diplomacy

6. "It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

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

8. "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 arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."

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

18. "Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

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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21. "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."

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

24. "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

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

28. "The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

Gail Sheehy

Other categories: Success and Fame

29. "Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

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

34. "Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

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

39. "Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."

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

41. "The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."

Andrew Jackson

42. "Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do."

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

44. "The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like."

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

46. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man."

John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton

Other categories: Power and Weakness

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

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

50. "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Other categories: Power and Weakness

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