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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
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
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 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
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.
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
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
— Dora Russell
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[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
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
No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power
— Stefan Molyneux
The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
— Evan Meekins
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
— Andrew Jackson
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 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
In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.
— Maria Weston Chapman
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
What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
— Lucy Powell
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
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
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
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
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
