Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson

“You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

— James Madison

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”

— Jurgen Appelo

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Restraint, however, is the essence of modern governance. A government’s self-control permits its people to create, explore, and discover, and that’s what allows a…

— Gordon G. Chang

“If you can manipulate people, you can make them do anything.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in…

— Herbert Schiller

“governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Declaration of Independence

“The possibility of a question of this nature, proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our National Government deeper than in the mere…

— Alexander Hamilton

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only…

— Che Guevara