Arms Quote by Edward Gibbon

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

— Lysander Spooner

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates…

— Frank Chodorov

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

— Emily Dickinson

Idleness ruins the constitution

— Ovid

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

— Irwin Edman

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

— Manmohan Singh

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body,…

— Karl Rove

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

— Tom Coburn

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

I think the majority of politicians keep their positions for too long.

— Elizabeth May

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

— Herbert Spencer