Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under
Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all -- inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all
We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector
I think the best possible social program is a job
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth
Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets
Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive
Information is the currency of democracy
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?
If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity
The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it
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