Bread Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

— James Bovard

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

— 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

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

“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 evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

— Walter E. Williams

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a…

— Jonathan Swift

Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems…

— L. Neil Smith

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

“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself oppressed by…

— Emma Goldman