Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Every time the government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion-it is an evil government.

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.