Famous Quotes

"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."

Kin Hubbard 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 Kin Hubbard

• "No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

• "We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate."

• "Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best."

• "Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."

• "There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."