Quotes About Power

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.