Government Quote by Ambrose Bierce

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should…

— Ambrose Bierce

By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but…

— George Washington

“So we passed, hand-cuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington through the Capital of a nation, whose theory of government, we are…

— Solomon Northup

“Lee, who had borne the guilt of polluting public waters and been cheated by a dishonest official at a tax office, wanted to feel…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Washingtonians are a bunch of cultured, egotistical, lumpen-elitist snobs who live in their own dream world completely divorced from the rest of the country.…

— Bryan Taylor

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after…

— Richard Brookhiser

“Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and…

— David McCullough

“fair. Washington laid claim to the honor on grounds it was the center of government, New York because it was the center of everything.…

— Erik Larson

“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game…

— William F. Cody

“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who, in the…

— Robert A. Caro

“Given time, Washington DC. has a way of making a Politician out of an Honest Man.”

— Ron Rinna