Famous Quotes

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

James Russell Lowell 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 James Russell Lowell

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

• "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."