Quotes About Authority

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.