Government Quotes

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." "Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions" "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." "Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life." "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion" "That no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice moderation temperance frugality and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles" "The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted" "Now government is necessary for our mutual survival deception and lies our devastating hope" "In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem." "The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law" "The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government" "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program" "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one" "Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house" "The best minds are not in government If any were business would steal them away"