Army Quote by Henry Hazlitt

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

— Pearl S. Buck

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

— Robert H. Frank

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

— Richard Cohen

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It…

— Lord Acton

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want…

— Ellen Glasgow

“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is…

— Will Durant

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

— Gavin Newsom

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign…

— Calvin Coolidge

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

— Charles Ferguson