Famous Quotes

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government."

Thomas Carlyle 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 Thomas Carlyle

• "Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

• "It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."

• "None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

• "Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

• "Work alone is noble."