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The Athenians govern the Greek; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan (b.1911) American president.
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a “taxing machine” to the contented a “machine for securing property”.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author.
Government has no other end than the preservation of property.
John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher.
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological.. at one level it is simply thwarted greed; since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
Gore Vidal (b.1925) American novelist.
The business of Government is to see that no other organization is as string as itself.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American president.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William E. Borah (1865-1940) American politician.
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded by beings who hav neither title, knowledge nor virtue.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government , a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
We mustn’t be stiff and stand off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
The government of the world I live in was not farmed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
At the very heart of British government there is a luxuriant and voluntary exclusion of talent.
Brian Chapman (b.1923) British academic.
It is the duty of Her Majesty’s Government neither to flap nor to father.
The authorities were at their wit’s end, nor had it takes them long to get there.
Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952) British critic.
Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory or rules or f races, but the happiness of the common man.
William Beveridge (1879-1963) British economist.
For forms of government. Let fools contest, whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington (1732-1799) American President.
Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
They that govern most make least noise. In wrong a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, puff, and sweat; but he that governs, sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.
Selden.
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.
H.J. Van Dyke.
The less government we have the better the fewer laws and the less conflided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.
Emerson.
Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than a good government
Sir W. Raleigh.
