"The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams."

Government, Power, Statistics

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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Government, Democracy, Parliament, Trouble

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Government, Society, People, Building

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Writer

Government, Country, Writers

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Government, Decision

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

Government, Democracy, Principles

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Government, Country

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Government, Reason, Slavery

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Government, Mystery, Washington

"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Government, Power, Truth, Today, Regret

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Government, People, Country, Exercise

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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."

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"But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."

Money

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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

Explore more quotes by Josiah Stamp

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."

"But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin."

"The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link."

"The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams."