...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

By definition a government has no conscience Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

A well balanced inclusive approach is essential for the proper government of any country

Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs and do them well

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself