Quotes About Authority

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

Government is waging war against the people.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

There's never been a good government.

War is just one more big government program.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.