"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift" ... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git."
--Alexai Sayle.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
--Nikita Khrushchev

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers We are the president."
--Hillary Clinton.

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
--Will Rogers

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
--Albert Einstein

Government is not reason: It is not eloquence, it is Force... like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
--George Washington

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

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
--Charles Austin Beard

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
--Thomas Jefferson

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
--Judge Gideon J. Tucker, 1866

It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
--Voltaire

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.
--Voltaire

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
--David Friedman

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