Enemy Quote by Garet Garrett Download Open image “Government is the natural enemy of freedom.” — Garet Garrett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enemy Freedom Government Natural Natural enemies Nature Politics
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid restrictions, than the awful prospect of a lawless, frontierless world. Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity; it brings out the old raiding, oppressing, murderous instincts; the rage for revenge, for power, the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
As government grows beyond its constitutional boundaries, it really does devour freedom. — W. James Antle Copy Share Image
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Fear is a man's worst enemy, but love is a man's most powerful weapon against anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
