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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.

– Edmund BurkeRate it:

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

– Percy Bysshe ShelleyRate it:

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

– John UpdikeRate it:

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

– John AdamsRate it:

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

– Ronald ReaganRate it:

Government is merciless

– ProverbRate it:

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

– George WashingtonRate it:

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

– George WashingtonRate it:

Government is not the problem but rather the prize, and right now it sits in a trophy case on Wall Street.

– George GoehlRate it:

Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you’ll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.

– Richard ArmeyRate it:

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

– Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848Rate it:

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

– Claire Huchet BishopRate it:

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.

– P. J. O'RourkeRate it:

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

– John Maynard KeynesRate it:

Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

– Abraham LincolnRate it:

Government organisations offer pension to its workforce, private companies give undue tension to its most employees.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

– Ronald ReaganRate it:

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.

– Ronald ReaganRate it:

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

– Thomas PaineRate it:

Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.

– James WilsonRate it:

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

– MacKenzie KingRate it:

Government: A good government should always have the power to impeach, but never need to.

– Ryan PackRate it:

Government: A good government shouldn't control its citizens, but it should intervene when it's citizens are making harmful decisions. And when the government is making harmful decisions it's citizens should intervene. There needs to be some sort of safeguard that keeps these two from harming one another.

– Ryan PackRate it:

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