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.
If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war.
T]he Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government.
Government doesn’t "intrude" on the "free market." It creates the market.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.