rule

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

At certain times of grave national stress when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it's really going to work the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.