Aggression Quote by Herbert Spencer

“[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by…

— Thomas Jefferson

Truth: a tyrant to falsehood and an enemy to man.

— Anonymous

“As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Ayn Rand

“Who doubts that there may be great goodness, and great happiness, and great affection under the absolute government of a good man? Meanwhile, laws…

— John Stuart Mill

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the…

— Ludwig von Mises

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable,…

— Fisher Ames

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

— William Penn

All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The most devious and sinister acts of historical violence are always committed by tyrants with armies—not citizens with arms.”

— Seth Daniel Parker