Quotes About Power

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

In government, the scum rises to the top.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.