Quotes About Power

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.