The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. —P. J. O'Rourke More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. —James Madison More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. —Gerald R. Ford More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy. —Gerald R. Ford More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have. —Gerald R. Ford More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. —Gerald R. Ford More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. —Earl Warren More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. —Bob Wells More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email