Quotes About Power

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

Good government has to mean less government.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

The government is worst which governs most.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Influence is not government.