Argument Quote by David Hume

“To reason with governments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms…

— Thomas Paine

“It may just be," he added, "that there is something fundamentally unworkable about government itself. As long as Homo sapiens terra is a wild…

— H. Beam Piper

“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is…

— Will Durant

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not…

— Woodrow Wilson

“[F]or the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

“What is needed is a growth in consciousness, not a growth of government.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

— George Washington

“This is a relatively recent phenomenon, this notion that government inevitably leads to dependency. Look, there were periods of time in our history when…

— David Blum

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple…

— Thomas Paine

I feel that if people investigate the emergence of government, of State power - if they examine the logic of State power historically, and…

— Murray Bookchin