"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
― John W. Gardner
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Government
More From John W. Gardner
- "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."
- "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
- "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
More In Government
- "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."― Frederic Bastiat
- "That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together."― Noel Coward
- "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."― H. L. Mencken