940 private quotes tagged government

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

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

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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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“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.” — 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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“Man is not free unless government is limited.” — Ronald Reagan

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

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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

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“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.” — Harry S. Truman

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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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