Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

H. L. Mencken Quote: 'All government, of course, is against ...'

Related Quotes

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
Henry Knox
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
Tobias Wolff
Tags: You Because Want
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
James Madison
Tags: Home Real Against
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
Catharine Beecher
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
William Godwin
Tags: Men Power You
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Acton
Tags: He Every Man
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
Don Young
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison
sea beach horizon coast landscape
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.


James Hansen
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
Tags: Death Fear Life
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
Eamon de Valera
Tags: War Just Who
But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.
William Kunstler
sun denmark summer sunset sea
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.


Jack Kemp
We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
Chris Matthews
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
Rick Perry
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
Henry Knox
Of course he's going to work with Paul Ryan; of course he's tried to bridge the party together with Paul Ryan, but Ryan is also running against somebody who's not going to win but nonetheless is a strong supporter of Mr. Trump's.
Paul Manafort
Tags: Work Going He
I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
Robert J. Bentley
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
Anna Howard Shaw