940 private quotes tagged government

“One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.” — Lee Iacocca

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“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” — James Madison

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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” — Will Rogers

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“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.” — Confucius

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“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.” — Will Rogers

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“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.” — Thomas Paine

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“The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.” — Joe Biden

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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.” — James Madison

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“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” — Ayn Rand

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“I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.” — Will Rogers

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“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.” — Ronald Reagan

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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.” — Voltaire

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“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” — George Washington

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