Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Nelson Mandela
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
