Quotes about Power Government

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms. Votes: 3

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion. Votes: 2

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. Votes: 2

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. Votes: 2

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. Votes: 2

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. Votes: 2

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power. Votes: 2

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. Votes: 2

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. Votes: 2

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Votes: 2

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. Votes: 2

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes. Votes: 2

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control. Votes: 2

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. Votes: 2

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. Votes: 2

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. Votes: 2

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police. Votes: 2

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights. Votes: 2

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt. Votes: 2

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid. Votes: 2

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space. Votes: 2

Corporations have more power than the government. Votes: 0

Government has the power to help improve well-being Votes: 0

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right. Votes: 0

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. Votes: 0

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power Votes: 0

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. Votes: 0

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. Votes: 0

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people. Votes: 0

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential. Votes: 0

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. Votes: 0

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed, Votes: 0

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint. Votes: 0

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . . Votes: 0

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. Votes: 0

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. Votes: 0

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. Votes: 0

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people. Votes: 0

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. Votes: 0

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. Votes: 0

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. Votes: 0

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power. Votes: 0

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. Votes: 0

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power. Votes: 0

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped. Votes: 0

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. Votes: 0

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized. Votes: 0

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. Votes: 0

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Votes: 0

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. Votes: 0

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. Votes: 0

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. Votes: 0

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government. Votes: 0

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. Votes: 0

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren Votes: 0

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. Votes: 0

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power. Votes: 0

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it. Votes: 0

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. Votes: 0

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. Votes: 0

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have. Votes: 0

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. Votes: 0

Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency. Votes: 0

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important. Votes: 0

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. Votes: 0

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. Votes: 0

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government. Votes: 0

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system. Votes: 0

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. Votes: 0

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised. Votes: 0

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. Votes: 0

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power. Votes: 0

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. Votes: 0

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. Votes: 0

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused. Votes: 0

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all. Votes: 0

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful. Votes: 0

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government. Votes: 0

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. Votes: 0

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. Votes: 0

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so. Votes: 0

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems. Votes: 0

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat. Votes: 0

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. Votes: 0

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself. Votes: 0

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power. Votes: 0

That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power. Votes: 0

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. Votes: 0

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation. Votes: 0

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies. Votes: 0

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. Votes: 0

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals. Votes: 0

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. Votes: 0

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else. Votes: 0

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. Votes: 0

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. Votes: 0

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. Votes: 0

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better. Votes: 0

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. Votes: 0

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government. Votes: 0

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. Votes: 0

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. Votes: 0

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. Votes: 0

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget. Votes: 0

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. Votes: 0

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. Votes: 0

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. Votes: 0

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. Votes: 0

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power. Votes: 0

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power. Votes: 0

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government. Votes: 0

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. Votes: 0

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects. Votes: 0

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues. Votes: 0

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats. Votes: 0

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others. Votes: 0

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds. Votes: 0

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. Votes: 0

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Votes: 0

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government Votes: 0

Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs Votes: 0

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. Votes: 0

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny. Votes: 0

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves. Votes: 0

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect. Votes: 0

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found. Votes: 0

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. Votes: 0

The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism. Votes: 0

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. Votes: 0

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. Votes: 0

Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years. Votes: 0

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. Votes: 0

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation. Votes: 0

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. Votes: 0

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have. Votes: 0

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master. Votes: 0

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. Votes: 0

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you. Votes: 0

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Votes: 0

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. Votes: 0

The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes. Votes: 0

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals. Votes: 0

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power... Votes: 0

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority. Votes: 0

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. Votes: 0

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order. Votes: 0

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government. Votes: 0

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. Votes: 0

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper. Votes: 0

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. Votes: 0

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents. Votes: 0

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven. Votes: 0

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow. Votes: 0

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. Votes: 0

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority. Votes: 0

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms. Votes: 0

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men. Votes: 0

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone. Votes: 0

What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska. Votes: 0

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus. Votes: 0

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another. Votes: 0

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power. Votes: 0

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal. Votes: 0

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants. Votes: 0

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. Votes: 0

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. Votes: 0

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress. Votes: 0

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right. Votes: 0

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. Votes: 0

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. Votes: 0

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites ... Votes: 0

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots." Votes: 0

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. Votes: 0

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy. Votes: 0

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself. Votes: 0

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves. Votes: 0

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it. Votes: 0

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do. Votes: 0

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number. Votes: 0

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. Votes: 0

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. Votes: 0

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people. Votes: 0

This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized. Votes: 0

No people exists that would not think itself happier even under its own bad government than it might really be under the good governance of an alien power. Votes: 0

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly. Votes: 0

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power. Votes: 0

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. Votes: 0

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts. Votes: 0

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power, Votes: 0

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check? Votes: 0

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. Votes: 0

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be. Votes: 0

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power. Votes: 0

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require. Votes: 0

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power. Votes: 0

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. Votes: 0

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States Votes: 0

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power." Votes: 0

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous. Votes: 0

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power. Votes: 0

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power. Votes: 0