"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."

— Plato 🌹

"I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty."

— Justin Amash 🌹

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

— Frank Herbert 🌹

"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 🌹

"Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever."

— Antonin Scalia 🌹

"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."

— John Adams 🌹

"We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States."

— Kim Jong Il 🌹

"An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting."

— Tom Coburn 🌹