Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

— Robert M. Gates

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

— Li Zhaoxing

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are…

— Edwin Thompson Jaynes

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

— Lewis Hyde

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

— Benjamin Tucker

In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or…

— Ajit Pai

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

— Thomas Jefferson

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

— James Madison

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

— Bertrand Russell

They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.

— Donald Trump

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

— Thomas Jefferson

The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet