Government Quotes

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

The dead should not rule the living.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.

Money will not purchase character or good government.