Accepting Quote by Harry Browne

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up…

— Harry Browne

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded…

— Woodrow Wilson

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this…

— Glenn Reynolds

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever…

— Ronald Reagan

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

— Rose Wilder Lane

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

— George Washington

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the…

— Felix Frankfurter

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force,…

— Millicent Fenwick

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

— Bernard Berenson

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but…

— Ludwig von Mises