Famous Quotes

"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."

Harry S. Truman 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 Harry S. Truman

• "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

• "Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

• "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

• "The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

• "You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."