Quotes; Government

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
- Malcolm Wallop

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
- Ayn Rand

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- Thomas Jefferson

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
- Woodrow Wilson

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
- Fred Woodworth