“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.”
Others on Government
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of par...”
Ronald Reagan
4 quotes“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.”
Hamilton
3 quotes“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and ju...”
Ron Paul
2 quotes“Counterfeit money should not be done by anyone, whether it be government or private.”
Daniel Webster
2 quotes“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”
Edmund Burke
2 quotes“All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromis...”
Andrew Jackson
2 quotes“There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
Voltaire
1 quote“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Ludwig von Mises
1 quote“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”
Woodrow Wilson
1 quote“No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government...”
Bertrand Russell
1 quote“Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.”