Government Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

— Leo Tolstoy

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of…

— Hans F. Sennholz

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

— Thomas Jefferson

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

“although a properly constrained government may be superior to statelessness, it doesn't follow that any government is superior to no government all. If a…

— Peter T. Leeson

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

— Richard Cohen

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

National governments alone cannot deliver lasting prosperity without a transformation of social and economic development that seeks to minimise risk and seize the opportunity…

— Patricia Espinosa

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

— Anonymous

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the…

— David Korten

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation…

— Daniel Webster

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson