Government Quotes
Jefferson leads this page, followed by Milton Friedman, Robert LeFevre and Lincoln. Most of it is political philosophy, with a few jokes mixed in: P. J. O’Rourke in Parliament of Whores (1991) says giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys, and Will Rogers, in 1935, said a comedian needs no credit when the whole government is working for him.
Two well-known lines are flagged. “Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants” is credited to William Penn, but the oldest wording the notes cite is from a 1949 speech by Norman Vincent Peale. The one about a government big enough to give you everything being big enough to take it away is credited to Barry Goldwater, and the notes point to older versions of it.
Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch.
Nothing is more false than the axiom that governments are belligerent and peoples are pacific.
Human rights are not privileges to be granted by governments; they belong to every human being.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
An anarchist is anyone who believes in less government than you do.
This government will not allow Waqf to be used as a political tool anymore.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.