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“When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.”

Humans Wells Government Principles Human Nature Possibility Citizens Possession Cease Concentration Camps Household Honored Likelihood Concentration Camp

Book:The Long-Legged House

Source: The Long-Legged House

“If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.”

People Ifs Way Giving Trying Humans Government Force Groups Special Human Nature Position Competition Favors Enterprise Farmers Representatives Small Business

Author:Milton Friedman

“Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.”

Men Humans Persons Ends Use Hands Government Community Principles Human Nature Defeat One Man

Book:The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

Source: The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica

“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?”

Humans Government Spirit Animal Economic Worst Human Nature Demand Spending Appeals Consumption Deficit Government Spending Protectionism Spendthrift Animal Spirits Keynesianism

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.”

Humans Government Justice Principles Too Much Human Nature Good Things Mere

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.”

Way Humans Has Beens Ideas Government Humanity Fighting Force Justice Human Nature Soldier Tyranny Selfishness Organized Priests Bigotry Thunderstorm Feudalism

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”