Famous Quotes

"For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best."

Alexander Pope 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 Alexander Pope

• "Health consists with temperance alone."

• "Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

• "So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

• "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance."

• "All nature is but art unknown to thee."