Quotes about Government
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
- Henry David Thoreau
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
- Henry David Thoreau
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
- James Madison
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.
- James Madison
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
- John Adams
[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
- John Adams
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
- John Adams
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
- Mike Huckabee