Quotes About Power

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.