Quotes About Power

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

The government means industry, if you know what I mean.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Government is best which governs least

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.