Capacity Quote by Thomas Paine

“Once more, we will have a government of, by and for the people.”

— David Horowitz

“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the “truth.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.”

— Mark Steyn

“We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.”

— Ronald Reagan

“What is needed is a growth in consciousness, not a growth of government.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard.”

— Mike Brooks

“Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.”

— B.F. Skinner

“Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away”

— Barry Goldwater