Quotes About Authority

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.