The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and read more

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the strongest government read more

Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world
at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on
the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

England is the mother of parliaments.

England is the mother of parliaments.

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has read more

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our read more

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.