Quotes About Authority

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.