Government Quote by William Faulkner

“congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless”

— Mark Twain

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

— Brandon Sanderson

“flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.”

— Herman Melville

“The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.”

— George Herman

“Thus was born an astonishing new idea that governments justify their existence only by promoting possibilities for prosperity and happiness among all those they…

— Alain de Botton

“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all…

— Jasper Fforde

“he had been an inmate asked to erect the walls of his own asylum.”

— Hugh Howey

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free…

— Ameen Rihani

“Washington is the only lunatic asylum in the world run by its own inmates.”

— W. Lee O'Daniel

“Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Within a system of corrupt affiliations who denies the existence of the people's fundamental demands, phobias toil to be the order of the day.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

“[F]or the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching…

— Voltairine de Cleyre