The Old World belief is this: Individuals are cells in a…

What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Consistent conservatives should frame their views in accordance with the fundamental belief that individuals, not governments, have the right to determine the course of…

— Richard Grenell

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches)…

— Isaiah Berlin

This day, the Government has no authority to reform the people; and the people have no authority the reform the Government.

— Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

— Oscar Wilde

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

— Ron Paul

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant…

— Ayn Rand

The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize,…

— John Seabrook

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in…

— Albert Einstein

“A category of government activity which, today, not only requires the closest scrutiny, but which also poses a grave danger to our continued freedom,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from…

— Monica Crowley

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond…

— George Papandreou

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper…

— Milton Friedman

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual, even without the government having any intent to do you…

— Edward Snowden

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

— Marilyn Ferguson