Government Quote by Jeremy Bentham

“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. It is the proper sphere…

— Henry Hazlitt

“In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate of the…

— Ron Chernow

“I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.”

— Jeff Grubb

“The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities and to…

— Rudolf Rocker

“The claim to political equality was then supplemented by the demand for economic democracy, which was to give substance to the ideal of the…

— Smith III, Ted J

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume

“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the…

— William Graham Sumner

“People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should only be a means to ensure to man his material subsistence and…

— Rudolf Rocker

“The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow…

— China Miéville

“offering silent tribute to the unwillingness of any bureaucracy to go out of business. By”

— Scott Turow

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

— Milton Friedman

“Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.”

— Alex de Waal