Government Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

As a rule, the Government appoints its friends.

— Hector-Louis Langevin

“In fact you need do nothing to be connected with the Law of Attraction! Whether you like it or not, since the very beginning…

— Stephen Richards

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied…

— James Q. Wilson

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

— Benjamin Constant

I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away…

— Baldassare Castiglione

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before…

— John Stossel

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a…

— Sarah Palin

“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. It is the proper sphere…

— Henry Hazlitt

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social…

— Maggie Gallagher

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

— Cardinal Richelieu