Famous Quotes

"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."

Jeremy Bentham 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 Jeremy Bentham

• "The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."

• "The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

• "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

• "The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."

• "Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."