The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
French proverbs
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy
Be the chief but never the lord.
Lao Tzu
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson