“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
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“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
“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.”
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
“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.”
“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
“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.”
“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”
“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.”
“The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.”
“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
“I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.”