I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.
John Redwood 06/2003
Category: What is Government
No Government can be long secure wihtout a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: Opposition, What is Government
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Edmund Burke
Category: What is Government
Government has no other end than the preservation of property.
John Locke 1690
Category: What is Government, Property
Government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Abraham Lincoln 19/11/1863
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, What is Government
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns. For the former therefore to return among the latter is not to degrade them but to promote them.
Benjamin Franklin
To Alexander Hamilton
Category: What is Government
Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
Thomas Paine 1791
Category: What is Government
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
Baron de Montesquieu 1748
Category: What is Government, Rule of Law
If any man asks me what a free government is, I answer that for any practical purposes, it is what the people think it so.
Edmund Burke 1777
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
Category: What is Government
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal bwith a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan 1965
Category: What is Government
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Category: What is Government
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
Category: Civil Service, Taxation, What is Government
