Capable Quote by Morgan Philpot

“To presume to have recourse to power and taxation, besides being oppressive and unjust, implies further, the injurious supposition that the organized is infallible,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“What is not challenged from outside is open to corruption from within. -This is the infinite value of a dissenting voice: that where it…

— Nuala O'Faolain

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“What Tocqueville did not consider was how long such a government would remain in the hands of benevolent despots when it would be so…

— Friedrich Hayek

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is…

— Will Durant

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

— George Santayana

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of…

— Walt Whitman

“Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper…

— Seymour Martin Lipset

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities,…

— Walter Lippmann

“A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight…

— Edmund Burke

“The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.”

— Cormac McCarthy