Quotes About Control

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.