Government Quote by Albert Einstein

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and…

— Albert Einstein

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

— Albert Einstein

“Administrative law thereby has transformed American government and society. Although this mode of power is unrecognized by the Constitution, it has become the government’s…

— Philip Hamburger

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

— J. Jayalalithaa

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate…

— Albert Gallatin

“This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government’s petty, silly, pointless laws they…

— Jeremy Clarkson

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on…

— Ayn Rand

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of…

— Abraham Lincoln