Quotes About Power

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.