Quotes About Authority

There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.

The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.

We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution.

Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other peoples lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives.

The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.

Bogus fears can produce real servitude.

The surest effect of exalting government is to make it easier for some people to drag others down.

Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people.

As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.

The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.

Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.

The principle of government supremacy is Clinton's clearest legacy.

Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

But children do not need to be in control. They have very little authority or power, and live each day in dependence and trust, receiving everything as a gift. And this, I believe, is what Jesus is advocating.

What chains can hold belongs to men. The rest is Gods.

No Socialist system can be established without a political police.

to duck responsibility. He or she might say this: The policy will be implemented … The leader, on the other hand, would say this: Let's do it!

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.

Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects.