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Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse? — A.E. Samaan

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have. — Floyd Abrams

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government. — Isabel Paterson

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. — Robert Kennedy

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government. — Abraham Lincoln

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As — Noam Chomsky

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. — Bob Barr

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check. — John Adams

Government has the power to help improve well-being — David Cameron

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation. — Thomas Jefferson

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. — Neil Kinnock

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. — Harlan F. Stone

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. — Ronald Reagan

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

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. — John Stuart Mill

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren — Ayn Rand

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. — Benito Mussolini

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power. — Ian Bremmer

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget. — E.C. Riegel

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself. — Stefan Molyneux

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. — Mark Steyn

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview] — Noam Chomsky

The Americans are like shadows . . . frightening until you finally touch them and realize that their image was their power all along. — Mark Henshaw

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. — Matt Drudge

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. — James Madison

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. — James Bovard

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. — Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential. — Tony Abbott

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. — Andrew Jackson

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. — Thomas Jefferson

As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power. — Michael Schmicker

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? — Thomas Paine

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

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government ... — Alexander Hamilton

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. — Thomas Jefferson

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. — Richard Henry Lee

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. — Anthony Burgess

Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government. — Antonin Scalia

That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal. — Richard M. Nixon

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India. — George Soros

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power. — Millicent Fenwick

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful. — Li Keqiang

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. — Tony Blair

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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. — Howard Zinn

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power — Stefan Molyneux

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. — F. A. Harper

The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government. — Evan Meekins

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

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

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. — Andrew Jackson

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. — Mike Pence

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. — Thomas Sowell

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

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. — Victoria Woodhull

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 ... — Joseph Sobran

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. — Evita Ochel

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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. — Joseph Addison

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. — Jeremy Bentham

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power. — Lewis Black

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. — Peter Schiff

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power. — Maria Weston Chapman

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel. — Steven Magee

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. — Thaddeus Stevens

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. — Mark Thornton

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people. — Lysander Spooner

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. — Lucy Powell

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. — John Galt

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government — Peter Drucker

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Banks are institutions to which the government has granted the power to create money - or, — David Graeber

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments. — Kofi Annan

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can ... — Neale Donald Walsch

My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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. — Mark Twain

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized. — Charles Lindbergh

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. — Franklin Pierce

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed, — Ron Paul

When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right. — Thomas Paine

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen. — J.S.B. Morse

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power. — Eric Metaxas

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others. — Ed Buckner

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. — Tim Walberg