G Quotes
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“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.”
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure”
“Government is a gang of thieves writ large.”
“Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.”
“Government is a kind of legalized pillage.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Government is a necessary evil”
“Government is a powerful tool, but not a magic one. And once people realize that unintended outcomes are the rule rather than the exception, they can begin to temper their expectations as to what government can actually achieve. Because while government cannot accomplish all things, the belief and expectation that it can are probably the most dangerous beliefs and expectations that we have as members of a political body. Every sentence that begins with, “the government should…” implies the use of coercion. And the coercion that follows is not always worth what it costs, in terms of money, time, emotional distress, or human dignity. The trick is in knowing under what circumstances the reality of what coercion can achieve is more desirable than the reality of what cooperation can achieve.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Government is a powerful tool, but not a magical one.”
“Government is a ruling structured thuggery.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.”
“Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.”
“Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.”
“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.”
Source: Minority Report
“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.”
“Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is: We have to avoid panic by all means.”
“Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.”
“Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.”
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
“Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.”
“Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.”
“Government is an outdated concept, and partisan government is downright prehistoric.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Government is an unnecessary evil.”
“Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.”
Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.”
“Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.”
“Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.”
“Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.”
“Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792
“Government is best which governs least”
“Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve
only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.”
“Government is connected to everything we do.”
“Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.”
“Government is dysfunctional.”
“Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.”
“Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Government is essentially immoral.”
Source: The Right to Ignore the State
“Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.”
Source: The Right to Ignore the State
“Government is essentially the negation of liberty.”
“Government is for slaves; free men govern themselves.”
Source: Autobiography
“Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God.”
“Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.”
Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress
“Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.”
“Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.”
Source: The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second
“Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.”
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Government is instituted for those who live under it.”
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.”
“Government is just spending too much money.”