Famous Quotes

"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

John Maynard Keynes 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 John Maynard Keynes

• "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

• "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

• "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."

• "The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."

• "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."