Quotes About Government

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.