Attachment Quote by James Madison

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion…

— James Madison

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human…

— Jeffrey Tucker

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

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

— Herbert Hoover

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

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well…

— David Hume

The generosity of spirit that is usually shown by advanced democracies disappears when the public feel two things: that their government is not in…

— Damian Green

The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government,…

— George Washington