Quotes About Control

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

For government to give, it must first take away.