Famous Quotes

"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."

Harold MacMillan on Government

More quotes about Government

• "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."

  Thomas Jefferson on Government

• "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

  Winston Churchill on Government

• "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

  Thomas Jefferson on Government

• "Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

  George Washington on Government

• "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."

  Thomas Paine on Government

More quotes by Harold MacMillan

• "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

• "In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

• "I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

• "At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

• "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."