Quotes About Control

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.