“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of par...”

“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”

“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.”

“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and ju...”

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”

“Counterfeit money should not be done by anyone, whether it be government or private.”

“All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromis...”

“There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”

“The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

“Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.”

“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”