Quotes About Control

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.