Famous Quotes

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

Jonathan Swift 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 Jonathan Swift

• "No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."

• "Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

• "Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."

• "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."

• "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."