Quotes About Authority

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

All governments are lying cocksuckers.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.