940 private quotes tagged government

“Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.” — Fred Woodworth

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“If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.” — Fred Woodworth

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“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.” — Lord Acton

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“To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.” — Wendell Phillips

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“There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.” — Charles de Secondat

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“But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.” — James Q. Wilson

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“The happiness of society is the end of government.” — John Adams

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“World War II was the last government program that really worked.” — George Will

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“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm

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“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.” — Marquis de Lafayette

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“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams

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“A government of laws, and not of men.” — John Adams

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“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.” — Ron Paul

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“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.” — John Adams

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“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.” — Ron Paul

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“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” — Benito Mussolini

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“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” — Gerald R. Ford

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“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” — Milton Friedman

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“This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.” — Gracie Allen

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“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” — John Adams

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“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.” — Ron Paul

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