Quotes About Authority

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

Governments are not representative.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.