Famous Quotes

"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

Amos Bronson Alcott 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 Amos Bronson Alcott

• "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

• "While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

• "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

• "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

• "Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."