Quotes About Power

If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.