Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-10-01 Oct 1, 2003No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.~ Benjamin FranklinSince a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.~ Charles De GaulleThe budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Sep 30, 2003You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.~ AristophanesWhen the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.~ Franklin P. AdamsYou know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.~ George Herbert Walker Bush Sep 29, 2003A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de MontesquieuThe government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Sep 26, 2003The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.~ James BaldwinIf you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.~ James BuchananThe worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Sep 25, 2003Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.~ Dr. Jim BorenPublic apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There's more of it.~ Dr. Jim BorenIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.~ Milton Friedman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print