Government Quote by Victor Hugo

“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through…

— Mark Twain

“The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“This is about a very few very rich, very greedy individuals getting ever richer, at the expense of human misery and suffering throughout the…

— Joseph Befumo

“It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it;…

— Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by…

— Thomas Paine

“Instead of the concrete individual, you have the names of organizations and, at the highest point, the abstract idea of the State as the…

— C.G. Jung

“The noblest motive is the public good.”

— Virgil

“The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Those who claim to believe in liberal principals but advocate more and more confiscation of the wealth created by productive people, more and more…

— David Boaz