940 private quotes tagged government

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

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“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.” — Michel de Montaigne

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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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“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“All government, of course, is against liberty.” — 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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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“We have the best government that money can buy.” — Mark Twain

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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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“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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“It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” — Alan Shepard

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“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.” — Ronald Reagan

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“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.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” — James Madison

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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.” — Voltaire

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“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” — James Madison

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

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“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.” — Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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