Quotes on Government

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

“We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn”

“Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about, said the voice of Maurice. They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.”

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

“You govern people, you do good and bad things.If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.”

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”

“When the law makers don't respect the law. The law becomes a joke. Those who have authority lose power. The justice system gets mocked.”

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A society that thinks it can pick a society’s winners and losers through legislation is setting itself up for an ever-increasing dependence on government.

Liberty means freedom from government, not dependence on it.

A government with the power to take liberties can take lives.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.