“Public instruction should be the first object of government.”
“Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”
“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”
“Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”
“The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.”
“The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.”
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
“Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.”
“To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.”
“The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away”
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”
“I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office”
“An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.”
“You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.”
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
“That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.”
“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.”
“The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.”
“That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.”
“There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
“For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.”
“We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.”
“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”