Logo
Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. – Nicolas Chamfort

Other quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort

Category:
Art
Author
Nicolas Chamfort
Read Quote

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort

Category:
Curmudgeonesque
Author
Nicolas Chamfort
Read Quote

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

Category:
Nature
Author
Nicolas Chamfort
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Government
category

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and theyre tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government. – Rand Paul

Category:
Government

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. – Melina Mercouri

Category:
Government

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. – James Madison

Category:
Government

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

Jeans represent democracy in fashion. – Giorgio Armani

Category:
Clothing

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. – Malcolm Muggeridge

Category:
Religion

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. – Thomas Hobbes

Category:
power

What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Contradiction