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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
[Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna
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Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
[Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna
charta.]
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
