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 you leave the government open for your cabal to manipulate you, you will never get it right.
It’s only created a weak centralised government that is not addressing any other issues
That’s the way government and the private sector ought to work together
Democracy is a system of government where supreme power is vested in the people.
No matter how bad a government may be, people should never fail to pray for their leaders.
If we want to run a federal system of government, we should run it properly.