Enemy Quote by Ayn Rand

“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government.”

— Thomas Paine

“Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.”

— Jean Tirole

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there…

— Ayn Rand

“Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.”

— Jack McCoy

“The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies.”

— Margarita Engle

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally…

— Ayn Rand

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.”

— Edith Hamilton

“When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

— Charles Slack

“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly…

— Arthur Koestler

“A man can live free and not seek to limit the freedom of others so long as no one seeks to limit his.”

— Barry Unsworth