Doing things Quote by Jacob Rees-Mogg

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

— King Felipe VI

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

— Chris Grayling

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

— Anonymous

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

— P. D. James

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

— Robin Wasserman

We shouldn't force anyone to do anything.

— KM II

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will…

— Llewellyn Rockwell