Famous Quotes

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."

Mark Twain 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 Mark Twain

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

• "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

• "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

• "When angry, count to four when very angry, swear."