Aggressive Quote by Margaret Thatcher

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

— Louis D. Brandeis

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can…

— George Washington

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act…

— David Lidington

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

— Emma Goldman

“The antigovernment paradigm blinds us to possibilities that lie outside its ideological litmus tests and prevents us from creating new networks of cooperation that…

— Bill Clinton

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

— Barbara Tuchman

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

— Milton Friedman

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

— John Hospers

The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...

— Benjamin Tucker