Life Quote by Henry David Thoreau

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead;…

— Thomas Paine

“A Government is not free to do as it pleases…. The law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as…

— David Boaz

“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.”

— Ayn Rand

“A government is only good in so far as it achieves the best kind of living together among a specific group of people and…

— G.M. Mes

“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one. ”

— Robert LeFevre

“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there…

— Ayn Rand

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume

“If there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. Nothing so mystical. It all comes…

— Thomas Pynchon

“This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government’s petty, silly, pointless laws they…

— Jeremy Clarkson

“In this respect the frailty of the human mind is surely proved: even when it seems to follow the way, it limps and staggers.…

— John Calvin