Charter Quote by Tom C. Clark

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

— Frank Herbert

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

— Samuel Johnson

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of…

— Frank Herbert

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep…

— Samuel Johnson

“There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of…

— Frank Herbert

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

— Mark Thornton

“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is…

— Will Durant

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

— James Cook

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less,…

— Margaret Thatcher

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

— John Galt