“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington, in “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest” by Upton Sinclair.
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis, “God in the Dock”
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