Humor Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson

“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

“Rulers craft stories, the ruled listen.”

— Amogh Swamy

“All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!”

— Frank Herbert

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I think it came from being a ruling class, from never being able to show weakness to the people they have conquered - to…

— Peter Cunningham

“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

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of…

— Thomas Paine

“You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

— James Madison

“If nothing else, all these years as a spy had taught her something important--regimes changed. Ideals changed. There was no such thing as an…

— Kate Cross

“You must watch and wait, Branza, to see what powers you have and don't have. It is not like home. We ruled there. Everything…

— Margo Lanagan

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

— Joseph Conrad