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The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
— Stefan Molyneux
The source and root of all monetary evil [is] the government monopoly on the issue and control of money. - Friedrich Hayek
— George Gilder
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
— Margaret Atwood
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
— Hannah Arendt
Government is an unnecessary evil.
— Jeff Berwick
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
— Walter Raleigh
The only greater [evil] than separation ... [is] living under a government of discretion.
— Thomas Jefferson
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
— Victor Hugo
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
— John Stuart Mill
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
— Samuel Johnson
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil ...
— Howard Zinn
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
— H.L. Mencken
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
— William Godwin
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Government is a necessary evil
— Thomas Paine
If you tolerate cruel people,
you tolerate evil people.
If you persecute kind people,
you persecute righteous people. — Matshona Dhliwayo
you tolerate evil people.
If you persecute kind people,
you persecute righteous people. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Government is to minister as an instrument in the hand of God to promote justice and to punish evil.
— R.C. Sproul
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
— James Cook
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government ...
— David Rockefeller
The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.
— A.E. Samaan
We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
— Benjamin Disraeli
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
— James Monroe
I think the government is incompetent, not evil.
— Adam Carolla
Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.
— Ron Paul
Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].
— Abraham Lincoln
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
— Frederic Bastiat
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
— Jeremy Bentham
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
— John F. Kennedy
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.
— Ayn Rand
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
The gross evil of our time defies all labels.
— Edward Abbey
The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.
— J. Edgar Hoover
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
— George Washington
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
— Daniel Webster
The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.
— Friedrich A. Hayek
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.
— Leonard Woolf
I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.
— Gavin McInnes
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
— Gloria Steinem
God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good.
— William R. Bowen
Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.