Quotes About Power

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a 'total government.' In short, we've got totalitarian government.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

People don't start wars, governments do.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

What is government but theft by consent?

A hated government does not long survive.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that's out of kings.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong