Conniving Quote by Laozi

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or…

— Warren G. Bennis

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Almost all of you in this government are inwardly quite detached from what you outwardly claim to be doing,” True charged. “You’re putting on…

— Jack Pelham

“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

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

— Thomas Jefferson

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose…

— Alexander Hamilton

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

— James Cook

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded…

— Steve Wynn

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

— Thomas Jefferson

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done…

— Frank Herbert