The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
~ V. S. Pritchett
The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.
~ Georges Bidault
Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.
~ H. L. Mencken
Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
~ Milton Friedman
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production of bad government to encourage consumption.
~ Jean Baptiste Say
Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.
~ Mary Mccarthy
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
~ Will Rogers
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
~ Barry Goldwater
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
~ George Santayana
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
~ Walter Bagehot
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
~ Friedrich Von Schiller
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
~ Abraham Lincoln
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
~ Dwight Morrow
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.
~ Fisher Ames
The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.
~ Henry George
Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
~ Thomas Paine
Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.
~ George Washington
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
~ Honoré De Balzac
Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.
~ Randolph Churchill
To govern is to choose.
~ Pierre Mendes-France
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.
~ Baron De Montesquieu
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
~ Seneca
China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
~ Chou En-Lai
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.
That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
~ Charles De Gaulle
There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it's really going to work the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
~ Henry Kissinger
The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.
~ Clarence C. Manion
To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.
~ G. Norman Collie
The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.
~ Lester Pearson
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
~ Talleyrand
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
