Government Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

“A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills…

— Youns Hussein

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

— Arlen Specter

“The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman,…

— Michael Schiavo

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

— Ambrose Bierce

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

— Alexander Hamilton

“...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.”

— Herbert Hoover

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

— George Washington

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control…

— John Stuart Mill