Quotes About Power

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

The worst government is the most moral.

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.