Civil service Quote by Jim Geraghty

“you’ve got to learn to think like a state if you work in the Civil Service. Organizations are not human beings and they don’t…

— Charles Stross

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

“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

“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better”

— William Howard Taft

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

“If you ever think you might want a career in politics, Inspector, think again. It's merely a continuous and mostly vain attempt to keep…

— Jasper Fforde

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.”

— Woodrow Wilson

“. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.”

— Henry David Thoreau