Government Quotes

The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.