Courses Quote by H. L. Mencken

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

— Jeb Bush

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

— Frank Herbert

What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new democratic forms…

— Gail Bradbrook

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

— John Dryden

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

— Martin L Gross

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

— Chris Stewart

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

— John Updike

“[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;”

— David Hume