Famous Quotes

"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

• "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

• "It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."

• "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

• "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."