Political science Quote by H. Beam Piper

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 itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the…

— Felix Frankfurter

Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own…

— Tony Evans

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where…

— Woodrow Wilson

“[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;”

— David Hume

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or…

— Warren G. Bennis

“Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves…

— B.F. Skinner

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A government which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it can feel.”

— Thomas Jefferson

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society,…

— Thomas Jefferson

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