Quotes About Authority

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

The safety of the State is the highest law.