Quotes About Control

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

Good government has to mean less government.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

The government is worst which governs most.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Influence is not government.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.