In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master."
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
It`s not the voting that`s democracy, it`s the counting.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
An elephant. A mouse built to government specifications.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
