Government Quotes

Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

If you despise your people, you will disregard them.If you hate your people, you will harm them.If you esteem your people, you will serve them.If you love your people, you will even die for them.

Lead rationally.Lead responsibly.Lead resiliently.Lead reliably.

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

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.

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

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.

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.

The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.

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.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production of bad government to encourage consumption.

Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.

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.

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.

The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

To govern is to choose.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.

China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

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.

To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

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.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.