Quotes About Authority

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.