Government Quotes

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

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

That government is best which governs least.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.