Government Quote by Anonymous

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable…

— Anonymous

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

— John Updike

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great…

— John Adams

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

— Aldous Huxley

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

— Edmund Burke

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

— Thomas Frank

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

— H. L. Mencken

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when…

— Susan B. Anthony