The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked. - Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. - Oscar Wilde
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
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
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. - Ayn Rand
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
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