Excitement Quote by Martin Van Buren

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

— John Updike

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

— Rufus Choate

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

— Juvenal

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

— Dean Koontz

“Perhaps too much is said in universities about how "exciting" it is to think. Thinking undoubtedly has its excitements and satisfactions, but these feelings…

— Glenn Tinder

Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought…

— James Madison

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

— Martin Van Buren

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

— Killer Mike

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

— P. J. O'Rourke