Fellows Quote by Joseph Addison

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

— Anonymous

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is…

— Publilius Syrus

“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If…

— H.L. Mencken

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

— Plato

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more…

— Rudolph Rummel

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Herbert Hoover

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

— James Bovard

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

— John Hospers