“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.”
“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.”
“Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.”
“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”
“Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.”
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
“It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.”
“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.”
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
“To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.”
“It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.”
“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”
“A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
“Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.”
“The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.”