By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well. - Jeff Berwick
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
There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds. - Jeff Berwick
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. - Ayn Rand
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
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression. - Noam Chomsky
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
Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' - Harry Browne
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
I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating. - Narayana Murthy
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. - Harry Browne
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
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. - Plato
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free. - Harry Browne
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
Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed. - Charles G. Koch
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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