Quotes About Power

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.