940 private quotes tagged government

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.” — Plato

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

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“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.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.” — Edward Abbey

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“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.” — Ronald Reagan

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

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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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“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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“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.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” — Ronald Reagan

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“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“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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“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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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.” — Rosa Luxemburg

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“I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.” — Lyn Nofziger

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