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“Let me give you some advice: never work for the government. Because when you work for the government, you work for the people. And…

— John Green

“But if you are a sufficiently great and important person, it is necessary that you should be spared small annoyances. If a fly settles…

— Agatha Christie

“That tiny part of your soul that believes in a ‘good government’ ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment of the…

— Jim Geraghty

“Now, as I said before, if it were wholly up to me, the rule would be that you get one term, and you’re done.…

— Jack Pelham

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

— Len Morgan

“When civilians kill, it is called murder. When governments kill, it is called patriotism.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people.”

— Martin Amis

“If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why…

— Michel Templet

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very…

— Michael Novak

“Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.”

— Lori Goodwin

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty…

— Bernard Baruch

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde