Famous Quotes About government

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.