Able Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process…

— Michael Parenti

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public…

— Joel Miller

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

— Shimon Peres

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

— John Stossel

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

— John Stossel

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion…

— James Russell Lowell

The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution -- because I actually…

— Barack Obama

The government's focus is very clear: borrow, build, monetise and repay.

— Anurag Thakur

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

— Ernie Fletcher

History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads,…

— Ludwig von Mises

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot…

— Ezra Taft Benson