Dependent Quote by James Bovard

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the…

— Charles Koch

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When…

— Mark Leibovich

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not,…

— James F. Cooper

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

— Tom Coburn

“If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.”

— Elias Boudinot

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its…

— John Taylor of Caroline

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty…

— Bernard Baruch