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“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this GOVERNMENT cannot endure permanently half – slave and half – free.
| Lincoln (Speech, Springfield, 1858) | 
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A conservative GOVERNMENT is an organized hypocrisy.
| Benjamin Disraeli | 
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A GOVERNMENT that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
| George Bernard Shaw | 
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All oppressive GOVERNMENT is more to be feared than a tiger.
| Confucius | 
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Democracy is a kingless GOVERNMENT regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, if he were a tyrant.
| Benito Mussolini | 
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Democracy means GOVERNMENT by the uneducated, while aristocracy means GOVERNMENT by the badly educated.
| G.K. Chesterton | 
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Every country has the GOVERNMENT it deserves.
| Joseph De Maistre | 
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Every decent man is ashamed of the GOVERNMENT he lives under.
| H. L. Mencken | 
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For in reason, all GOVERNMENT without the consent of the governed, is the very definition of slavery.
| Jonathan Swift | 
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GOVERNMENT is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
| Edmund Burke | 
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GOVERNMENT is a trust and the officers of the GOVERNMENT are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
| Henry Clay | 
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GOVERNMENT is necessary, not because man is naturally bad…but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
| Thomas Hobbes | 
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He who exercises GOVERNMENT by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
| Confucius | 
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I believe that all GOVERNMENT is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
| H. L. Mencken | 
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I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the GOVERNMENT.
| Woody Allen | 
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