940 private quotes tagged government

“That government is best which governs least.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.” — H. L. Mencken

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“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The government is us we are the government, you and I.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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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 art of government is the organisation of idolatry.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“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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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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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“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain

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“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.” — Harry S. Truman

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

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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” — Plato

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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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“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” — Ansel Adams

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“We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.” — George Washington

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“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain

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