Energy Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

— Charles Colson

It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.

— Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of…

— Hans F. Sennholz

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It…

— Lord Acton

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals…

— Murray Rothbard

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect…

— Ayn Rand

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another…

— Ron Paul

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

— Lyndon B. Johnson