Able Quote by Harry Browne

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

— Harry Browne

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

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

— Tom Clancy

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All…

— Wendell Phillips

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

— Joe Lhota

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

— Matthew Lesko

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our…

— Warren Mundine

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

— Stefan Molyneux

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

— Kakha Bendukidze

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently…

— Henry Louis Mencken

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him…

— H. L. Mencken