government Quotes

“But we must remember that good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is, in reality, instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

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“A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.”

― Mark Twain, Roughing It

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“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America

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“The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the 'rules of the game' and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

― Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address

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