Famous Quotes

"This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances."

Gracie Allen 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 Gracie Allen

• "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."

• "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."

• "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."

• "Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality."

• "When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."