Government Quotes

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

Unknown Russian