Facts Quote by R. Vaidyanathan

The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible…

— James Bovard

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the…

— H. L. Mencken

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

— Terence McKenna

“The state — or, to make matters more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They…

— H.L. Mencken

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the…

— H. L. Mencken

“Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all…

— David Dudley Field II

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

— Poonam Dhillon

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

— Ilana Mercer

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers…

— Thomas Jefferson

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

— Voltaire

There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

— Thabo Mbeki