Government Drunkenness

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving teenage boys whiskey and car keys." -- Anonymous P.J. O'Rourke

submitted via e-mail by Jordan Wagner, Sublette, Kansas

Thanks to Steve Miller for helping find the source.

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FDR on Individual Freedom

"Our Government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free. That civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom." — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Gerald Ford on Balance in the Government

"We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government—a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance." — Gerald R. Ford

"I feel that George Bush's actions are desecrating the America that I grew up in and believed in. He is making us an imperialist government. He is choosing to replace heads of state and government he doesn't like." -- Ed Asner, 3 of Hearts in NewsMax.com's Deck of Weasels

"Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces... And I personally do not understand how that happened, because I've been here many times and in my commentaries on television I would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government, and the willingness to fight for their country." -- Peter Arnett, 10 of Clubs in NewsMax.com's Deck of Weasels

"Everyone we met in Baghdad talks the Saddam line, including these women. They are Iraq's version of liberated women, the educated elite of Baghdad: teachers and doctors, architects and diplomats who meet once a month at this art gallery and restaurant. They are all Saddam supporters, and they don't trust the American government." -- Dan Rather, Ace of Clubs in NewsMax.com's Deck of Weasels

"Loyalty to the country always; loyalty to the government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain, via Donner Farms

Democracy | "Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management." -- "Senator Soaper"

"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil." -- James Monroe, 5th President of the United States of America (1817-1825)

"For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America (1933-1945)

"A decent and manly examination of the acts of the Government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged." -- William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States of America (1841)

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." -- Ronald W. Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America (1981-1989)

"Every government is run by liars, and nothing they say should be believed." -- legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone (from Russ Kick's website)

"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man." -- William, Lord Beveridge

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine