Quotes About Power

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy