Famous Quotes About Government
Index: by Subject | by Author
"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
"One of the penalties for refusing in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men."
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
