Quotes About Government

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.