Quotes About Authority

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

Right now there's kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.