Quotes About Control

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.