Quotes About Power

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: "Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

Based on every statement I've heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.