Behinds Quote by Samuel Smiles

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

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

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right.…

— Tom Wolfe

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the…

— Hermann Goring

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up…

— Harry Browne

Government is not a person; it is hardly even a collective of people. Government is a system, and it can be a good system,…

— Leslyn Lewis

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to…

— Ronald Reagan

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is…

— Walter Bagehot

Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner.

— Murray Rothbard

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the…

— Ronald Reagan