Quotes About Government

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

All power is inherent in the people.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.