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.
The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.
Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
Will we read next that government control of prices has created a shortage of sand in the Sahara?
Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.