Quotes About Power

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.