“Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.”
“I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.”
“A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.”
“There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.”
“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
“The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.”
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.”
“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.”
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
“It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.”
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
“Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.”
“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.”
“The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.”
“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.”
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
“It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.”
“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.”
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
“It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.”
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
“Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.”
“In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.”
“Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.”
“Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.”
“No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.”