Quotes- Government [law, tax, democracy]

People get the government they deserve.
-Italian Proverb

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
-Jay Leno

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-Henry Cate VII

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard, Jumpers (1972) act 1

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
-Lee Iacocca

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-Dorothy Parker

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
-Alfred E. Newman

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
-Georges Clemenceau

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
-George Carlin

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
-Noam Chomsky

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
-George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Law is a bottomless pit.
-JOHN ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
-JONATHAN SWIFT, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind

We are slaves of the laws in order that we may be able to be free
-Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
-Bella Abzug

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
-George Carlin

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
-Chris Rock

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn
-Edward Abbey

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.
-Author Unknown

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
-Barry Goldwater

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.
-Author Unknown

The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
-Benjamin Tucker

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.
-J.C. Watts, Jr.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
-Plato

[on filing for tax returns] This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.
-Albert Einstein

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
-John S. Coleman

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes.
-Erving Goffman

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.
-Vanya Cohen

We make war that we may live in peace.
-Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
-Henry Allen