Energetic Quote by Hjalmar Schacht

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

— Frank Herbert

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

— Paul Harris

What you want is a government, particularly if you're coming in fresh as a new government, you want stability.

— Humza Yousaf

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

— Anonymous

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human…

— Jeffrey Tucker

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

— Tom Coburn

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

— John Adams

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

— Aristotle

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

— Samuel Smiles