940 private quotes tagged government

“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” — George Washington

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“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

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

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

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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” — Joseph Stalin

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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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“That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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“Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.” — Will Rogers

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“Man is not free unless government is limited.” — Ronald Reagan

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“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.” — Will Rogers

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“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.” — Ronald Reagan

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“That fatal drollery called a representative government.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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