"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
― Theodore Roosevelt
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Government
More From Theodore Roosevelt
- "It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."
- "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
- "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
More In Government
- "The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."― Thomas Jefferson
- "The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can’t eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as ‘progress’, doesn’t spread."― Andy Rooney
- "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."― Ayn Rand