James Madison

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."

Otto von Bismarck

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

Benjamin Franklin

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."

William Penn

"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper."

Larry Flynt

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

Denis Diderot

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

Winston Churchill

"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

Lily Tomlin

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Abraham Lincoln

"Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln."

Will Rogers

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

Louis D. Brandeis

"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."

Cullen Hightower

"That government is best which governs least."

Thomas Paine

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."

Thomas Jefferson

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."

Ronald Reagan

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

Lord Acton

"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary."

Wilhelm Reich

"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."

Gore Vidal

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

Milton Friedman

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."

Woodrow Wilson

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

Thomas Paine

"The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them."

Cullen Hightower

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

Karl Marx

"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."

Lewis Mumford