Government

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Abraham Lincoln

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, subsidise it.

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, subsidise it.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?.

Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

As government expands liberty contracts.

As government expands liberty contracts.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Edward R. Murrow

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson

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