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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government. —Richard M. Nixon More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away. —Thomas Carlyle More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email