Quotes About Authority

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

Government is not show business.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government