Famous Quotes

"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

• "A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

• "As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."

• "To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

• "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."