Quotes About Authority

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

I've always been about less government.

Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Government is a necessary evil

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.