Quotes About Control

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

What is government but theft by consent?

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.