Quotes About Authority

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.