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Quotes About Control

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
~ Benito Mussolini
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
~ Lord Acton
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.
~ Ronald Reagan
The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
~ William Godwin
Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
~ John Updike
The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
All governments are lying cocksuckers.
~ Bill Hicks
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
~ Millard Fillmore
Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'
~ Harry Browne
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
~ John Dickinson
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
~ Harry Browne
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.
~ Hassan Rouhani
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
~ Jacque Fresco
You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.
~ Robert Ringer
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
~ Edward Snowden
A simple democracy is the devil's own government.
~ Benjamin Rush
Government is best which governs least
~ Thomas Paine
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
~ John C. Calhoun
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.
~ James Jesus Angleton