940 private quotes tagged government

“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.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” — George Washington

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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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“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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“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.” — 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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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.” — Will Rogers

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“That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.” — Will Rogers

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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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“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Man is not free unless government is limited.” — Ronald Reagan

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

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