5,272 Quotes About Government

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

[...] nonstate conflicts kill far fewer people than conflicts that involve a government, perhaps a quarter as many. Again, this is not surprising, since goverments almost by definition are in the violence business.

While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action.