Computers Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

— James Madison

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

— Poonam Dhillon

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded…

— Woodrow Wilson

“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“The state — or, to make matters more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They…

— H.L. Mencken

“The Sovereignty of the United States resides in the people, not in the machines, and it's the people's to take back, if they so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the…

— Samuel Williams

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the…

— Felix Frankfurter

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

— Benjamin Tucker

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of…

— C. Wright Mills

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson