Famous Quotes

"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all."

Rosa Luxemburg 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 Rosa Luxemburg

• "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."

• "Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters."

• "Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all."

• "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."

• "The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."