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.
It's time for a real change. We must end government corruption and build a sustainable society.
Democracy doesn’t belong to Government or to prime ministers. It belongs to the people.
A government without the power of defence! it is a solecism.
It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
Absolute democratic government is as much a tyranny as despotism.
A government which cannot be reformed does not merit to be preserved.