124 Quotes About Governments

You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only 'order' that governments have ever maintained.

I had once thought this was a third world problem. It is not. It is a politician’s mentality. A problem is only a problem if it has the immediate potential to stall the economy or contract the popularity of the administration.

Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world...

Hookers and governments they are both whores. Hookers sell their own body and governments, the poor people’s.

The same is true for the market economy: the power of markets is enormous, but they have no inherent moral character. We have to decide how to manage them... For all these reasons, it is plain that markets must be tamed and tempered to make sure they work to the benefit of most citizens. And that has to be done repeatedly, to ensure that they continue to do so.

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?