Government Quote by Andrew Jackson

“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.”

— Woodrow Wilson

“This is about a very few very rich, very greedy individuals getting ever richer, at the expense of human misery and suffering throughout the…

— Joseph Befumo

“The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better”

— William Howard Taft

“I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.”

— Jeff Grubb

“You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and you cut…

— Jack Kerouac

“. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“You have to respect the choice of the masses when they willfully elect a corrupt government.”

— Steven Magee

“The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”

— Naomi Alderman

“It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.”

— Ian Gregoire

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Aristotle

“For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not enjoy themselves.”

— Alan Wilson Watts