government Quotes

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.