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The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

— Thomas Francis Meagher

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

— Josiah Strong

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences…

— George Washington

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this…

— Fritz Todt

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an…

— Thomas Paine

“Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by…

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

— Emma Goldman

Big government squashes the human spirit

— Dennis Prager