Quotes About Government

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

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

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

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.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

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

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

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.

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.

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