Business Quote by Anonymous

The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition…

— David Starkey

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to…

— Bob Riley

The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole…

— Murray Rothbard

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

— Adam Michnik

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration…

— Bryan Stevenson

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

— Tony Judt

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to…

— Thomas Jefferson

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our old age…

— Paul Volcker

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock