Concentration Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration…

— Annie Besant

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more…

— Rudolph Rummel

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

— Martin Van Buren

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

— Noam Chomsky

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory…

— Anonymous

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to…

— Jesse Ventura

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

Good government has to mean less government.

— Anonymous

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

— Matthew Lesko

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

— Gordon Brown