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Quotes About Control

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.
~ Noah Webster
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
~ Davy Crockett
Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.
~ James Jesus Angleton
NRA - Nuts Running America.
~ Huey Long
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
~ H. L. Mencken
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
~ C. S. Lewis
Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.
~ Gustave de Molinari
Government is waging war against the people.
~ L. Neil Smith
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
~ Tony Blair
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.
~ Damon Keith
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
~ Émile Zola
The law is an opinion with a gun.
~ Stefan Molyneux
There's never been a good government.
~ Emma Goldman
War is just one more big government program.
~ Joseph Sobran
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
~ Jim Hightower
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
~ Ted Nugent
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
~ Milton Friedman
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
~ Honore de Balzac
Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.
~ Michael O'Donoghue