Failure Quote by Peter Hitchens

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

— Ron Paul

“At one level, the Opposition's most urgent job, between now and the next election, is to publicise the government's mistakes. Randolph Churchill once declared…

— Tony Abbott MP

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step...

— George Washington

“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as a sovereign…

— Calvin Coolidge

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

— Molly Ivins

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of…

— Walter Lippmann

“Government is about principles. And the principle is, never act on principle.’ ‘Politicians must be allowed to panic. They need activity. It is their…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

— Sam Houston

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

— Will Rogers