Quotes to inspire and reflect

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

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

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

All government is an ugly necessity.

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

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

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?

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Every man lives by exchanging.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.