Government Quotes

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive ac…

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

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.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

That government is best which governs least.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

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.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take …