The situation of the general government, if it can be…

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into…

— George Washington

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“A bad government cannot only be called as a ‘bad’ government; the real adjective should be this: Enemy! Yes, bad government is a real…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique'.

— Andre-Marie Ampere

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful…

— Abraham Lincoln

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're…

— Glenn Greenwald

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

— Aristotle

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off…

— Thomas Carlyle

Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner.

— Murray Rothbard

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it;…

— Lysander Spooner

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen,…

— Narendra Modi

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and…

— Jerry Brown

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them…

— Fisher Ames

“Suppose a problem in psychology was set: What can be done to persuade the men of our time — Christians, humanitarians or, simply, kindhearted…

— Leo Tolstoy

The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power…

— Thurman Arnold