"[N]o country can be well governed unless..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.”

“Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.”

“A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.”

“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”

“One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.”

“Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.”

“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.”

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”

“The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.”