940 private quotes tagged government

“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.” — Plato

0 favs

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

0 favs

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken

0 favs

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

0 favs

“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.” — George Washington

0 favs

“All government, of course, is against liberty.” — H. L. Mencken

0 favs

“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

0 favs

“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

0 favs

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

0 favs

“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

0 favs

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

0 favs

“War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.” — James Madison

0 favs

“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.” — Bertrand Russell

0 favs

“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.” — Benjamin Disraeli

0 favs

“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

0 favs

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

0 favs

“We have the best government that money can buy.” — Mark Twain

0 favs

“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” — James Madison

0 favs

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

0 favs

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

0 favs

“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.” — James Madison

0 favs

“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.” — Will Rogers

0 favs

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.” — Ronald Reagan

0 favs

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

0 favs

“So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.” — Thomas Jefferson

0 favs