940 private quotes tagged government

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

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“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.” — Albert Camus

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“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine

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“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.” — James Madison

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“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.” — Will Rogers

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“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.” — Ronald Reagan

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“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.” — George Washington

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“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.” — Edmund Burke

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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” — Winston Churchill

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“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.” — Will Rogers

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“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.” — Voltaire

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“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine

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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 second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.” — Ronald Reagan

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“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.” — Voltaire

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