"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Benjamin Franklin"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
Aristotle"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Thomas Jefferson"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
George Washington"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
Bertrand Russell"You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature."
George W Bush