American government Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will.”

— Henry David Thoreau

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One…

— H. L. Mencken

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain…

— Jefferson Davis

As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of human rights,…

— James Madison

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

— Russell Kirk

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become…

— Thomas Paine

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

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all…

— Calvin Coolidge

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no…

— H. L. Mencken

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine…

— Oliver Ellsworth

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

— Emma Goldman

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

— Anonymous