Quotes About Government

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.