States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
~ Dean William R. Inge
The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.
~ Alexander Ostrovsky
The king reigns but does not govern.
~ Jan Zamoyski
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.
~ John S. Caldwell
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
~ Charles Péguy
We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.
~ J. M. Parkin
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
~ Edith Hamilton
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
~ Harry S. Truman
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
~ Thomas E. Dewey
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.
~ Ludwig Van Moses
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
~ I. F. Stone
The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
~ Marcel Masse
We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
~ Woodrow Wilson
The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
~ Blaise Pascal
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
~ Voltaire
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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?
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
