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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
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For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
Douglas Adams
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire
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It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
Jean Baptiste Say
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
Lee Iacocca
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand /Anthem/
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We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
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