- What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else. – Tom Clancy
- It’s important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want. – Harry Browne
- Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you. – Harry Browne
- The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: ‘I, the State, am the people’. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- An oppressive government is much worse than a man-eating tiger. – Confucious
- It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. – John Adams
- If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. – Thomas Jefferson
- A moderate is either someone who has no moral code of his own, or if he does, then he’s someone who doesn’t have the guts to take sides between good and evil. – Rick Gaber
- Give a good man great powers and crooks grab his job. – Rick Gaber
- Overload the police with victimless crimes and other minutiae and eventually only creeps and bullies remain cops. – Rick Gaber
- Power draws the corrupted; absolute power would draw the absolutely corrupted. – Colin Barth
- The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be. – Lao-tzu
- Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free….The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. – Frederic Bastiat
- There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. – Demosthenes: Philippic 2, sect. 24
- People constantly speak of ‘the government’ doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. – H.L. Mencken
- Crime does not pay … as well as politics. – Alfred E. Newman
- Politics is a means of preventing people from taking part in what properly concerns them. – Paul Valery
- When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies. – Ron Paul
- …somebody has to take governments’ place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it. – David Rockefeller
- Government is big business, with the face of democracy. – Jim West
- Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America’s problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God. – Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what they will have for lunch. – Anonymous
- Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. – Ambrose Bierce
- We’re [United States] not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy. – Ramsey Clark
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