Quotes About Power

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Governments are not representative.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.