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Quotes About Authority

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it
~ William J. Clinton
Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
~ Robert Higgs
Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.
~ William J. Clinton
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.
~ Thomas Paine
The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.
~ Barry Goldwater
It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.
~ Grace Slick
Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.
~ Bill Whittle
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.
~ James Buchanan
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.
~ John Basil Barnhill
Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.
~ Mwai Kibaki
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.
~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
~ Charles Inglis
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.
~ Alan Keyes
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
~ Thomas Jefferson
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
~ Andrew Napolitano