Famous Quotes

"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."

James A. Garfield 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 James A. Garfield

• "Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter."

• "Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."

• "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

• "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

• "Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."