Anarchism Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “Government is best which governs least” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anarchism Anarchist Civil disobedience Democracies have Democracy Disobedience Eternal vigilance Founding Founding fathers democracy Freedom Freedom and liberty Freedom liberty Funny Governing Government Inspirational Libertarian Libertarian party Liberty Limited government Limiting government Love Political Politician Politics Price of freedom Theorists Transcendental Tyranny of the majority Vigilance
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst. — Jane Bowles Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
