Famous Quotes

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

Frank Herbert on Government

More quotes about Government

• "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."

  Thomas Jefferson on Government

• "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

  Winston Churchill on Government

• "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

  Thomas Jefferson on Government

• "Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

  George Washington on Government

• "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."

  Thomas Paine on Government

More quotes by Frank Herbert

• "How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."

• "One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

• "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

• "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

• "Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery."