“We have the best government that money can buy.”
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“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
“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.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”
“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.”
“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.”
“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.”
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”
“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”
“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”
“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.”
“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.”
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”