Authority Quote by Thomas Jefferson

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest…

— E.C. Riegel

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that…

— John Ralston Saul

Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise…

— William Greider

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to…

— Thomas Sowell

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the…

— James Madison

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may find safety…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to…

— Ronald Reagan

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful…

— Nicolas Walter

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

— Cornelius Nepos

“The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person’s profit can be achieved…

— Rocco Leonard Martino