Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. "
Thomas Jefferson
Only
Bad
Government
Related Quotes:
" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "
Ronald Reagan
Intelligence
Business
Best
" Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks. "
Charles Duhigg
Government
Limits
Small
" The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church. "
Thomas Becket
Peace
People
Unity
" Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. "
Ronald Reagan
Moving
View
Short
" For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own. "
Joe Biden
Step
Law
Democracy
" Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. "
Paul Harvey
Day
Seed
Government
" Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. "
Thomas Jefferson
Ambition
Tools
Germ
" I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump. "
Bobby Knight
Job
Time
History
" It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. "
Ben Linder
People
Work
First
" We never repent of having eaten too little. "
Thomas Jefferson
Too
Repent
Never
" Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. "
Thomas Jefferson
Talk
Done
About
" Truth is the glue that holds government together. "
Gerald R. Ford
Truth Is
Together
Government
" You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. "
Chris Rock
You
Government
Pay
" A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. "
Dean Inge
Government
Blessings
Nation
" I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. "
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Than
Long
Government
" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "
Megan Smith
American
Whatever
Will
" It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. "
Thomas Jefferson
Own
Values
Man
" Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. "
William E. Gladstone
Good
Policy
Government
" This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. "
Ted Cruz
Responsibility
Free
Government
" Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. "
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness
Good
Freedom
" The happiness of society is the end of government. "
John Adams
Society
End
Government
" People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. "
John Stossel
People
Free
Government
" The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. "
P. Chidambaram
Force
Independent
Police
" I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. "
Vaclav Havel
Military
Words
Government
" A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. "
Otto von Bismarck
Government
Go
Forward
" There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. "
Stokely Carmichael
Law
Conscience
Government
" Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't. "
Glenn Kelman
Short
Problems
Government
" The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. "
Thomas Jefferson
Most
War
Seldom
" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "
Ted Nugent
Government
Corruption
Control
" I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. "
Ginger Baker
World
Think
Now