Famous Quotes

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."

Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Frank Lloyd Wright

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

• "A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

• "An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

• "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."