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Quotes About Power

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.
~ Roger Sherman
Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
~ Will Rogers
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
~ Anthony Burgess
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
~ George Washington
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.
~ John Winthrop
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
~ Lysander Spooner
The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
~ Lord Acton
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.
~ David Rockefeller
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.
~ John Dickinson
The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
~ William Godwin
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
~ Grover Cleveland
Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
~ John Updike
The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
All governments are lying cocksuckers.
~ Bill Hicks
Liberty is always freedom from the government.
~ Ludwig von Mises