My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga read more

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius
inflexum sit.]

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.