940 private quotes tagged government

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

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

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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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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine

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

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

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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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“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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“A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.” — James Madison

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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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“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” — James Madison

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

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“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.” — Will Rogers

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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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“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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“So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.” — Thomas Jefferson

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