Quotes About Authority

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.