Quotes on Evil Government

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

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.