~ Government Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people too much authority from the states and too much liberty with the Constitution.

Ronald Reagan

[MysteRy]

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

James Madison

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Karl Marx

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Henry Clay

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Larry Flynt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.

P. J. O'Rourke

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.

Fred Woodworth

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.

Socrates

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Fred Woodworth