Quotes About Control

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

That government is best which governs least.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.