Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Fred Woodworth
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. - Ronald Reagan

  2. If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. - Stephen Colbert

  3. Is it better to be loved or feared? - Unknown

  4. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. - Bob Black

  5. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... - Ayn Rand

More Quotes By Fred Woodworth
  1. If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.

  2. Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

  3. And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

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