Quotes
Quotes about Men
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
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.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.
The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
