Quotes About Power

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Women have no government.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.