For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.' - George Clooney
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more. - Herber Spencer
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well. - Jeff Berwick
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. - Albert Einstein
To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others. - Jeff Berwick
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. - Plato
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. - Confucius
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds. - Jeff Berwick
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. - Oscar Wilde
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. - Ayn Rand
We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that. - Donald Trump
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. - Leo Tolstoy
Potentially, 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
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. - Socrates
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. - Abraham Lincoln
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