Cows Quote by Rose Wilder Lane

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

— Henry David Thoreau

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

— Ann Coulter

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the…

— Anonymous

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

— Anonymous

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

— George Orwell

There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new…

— Milton Friedman

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and…

— James Madison

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's…

— John Steinbeck

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

— Leo Tolstoy