Quotes About Authority

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

The government is worst which governs most.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Influence is not government.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.