Benevolence Quote by John Updike

Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work…

— Amity Shlaes

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

— John Updike

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

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

— Emma Goldman

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

— Jonathan Shipley

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

— Georg Buchner

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

— Bernard Berenson

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

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels…

— James Madison

Big government squashes the human spirit

— Dennis Prager

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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