- Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell on Government
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw on Government
- Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges on Government
- Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
- Woodrow Wilson on Government
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken on Government
- Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell on Government
- Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
- Sydney J. Harris on Government
- Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Government
- Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Government
- Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
- Plato on Government
- Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
- George McGovern on Government
- Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
- William J. Clinton on Government
- Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle on Government
- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins on Government
- Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
- Dalton Trumbo on Government
- Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
- James Madison on Government
- Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
- Paul Ryan on Government
- Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
- Rand Paul on Government
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