Quotes About Authority

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

The business of government is justice.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

They should rule who are able to rule best.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.