Customs Quote by George Santayana

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever…

— Ronald Reagan

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded…

— Woodrow Wilson

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new…

— Jeff Baxter

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple…

— Thomas Paine

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

— George Washington

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of…

— Harry Browne

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country.…

— Jose Marti

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

— Ernie Fletcher

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

“Government — or an administration — isn’t really the sum of its parts like people think, because all of those parts are competing for…

— Craig A. Falconer