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

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes. — Michelle Malkin

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you. — Albert Jay Nock

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. — Edward Snowden

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat. — Eric Schlosser

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

The greatest political problem facing the world today is ... how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds. — Leonard Read

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

The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists ... — Douglas Adams

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall

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

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. — Thomas More

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 fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. — Hannah Arendt

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

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

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power. — Camille Paglia

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. — James Madison

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

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to. — Kurt Vonnegut

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. — John Adams

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

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

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. — Stefan Molyneux

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

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. — James Q. Wilson

The underlying morality of society is getting worse because we have literally transferred our God-given power to the politician (Man's government). — Michael DeLance Thomas

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government. — George Monbiot

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. — Frank Herbert

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny. — Anna Brownell Jameson

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions. — Woodrow Wilson

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. — Conan O'Brien

Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion. — George H. Smith

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong. — Larry Craig

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 mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble. — Mark Twain

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. — James Madison

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. — William Howard Taft

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent

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

The power of destruction which had once been the ultimate privilege of government was now the only power left in the world
and it was everywhere. — H.G.Wells

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. — Rush Limbaugh

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. — Grover Norquist

The story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it. — William J. Federer

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization. — Barton Gellman

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best — Otto Von Bismarck

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. — Errico Malatesta

Corporate power consolidation is so enormous that even the government could be viewed as a small appendage of a larger corporate organism. — Bryant McGill

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed — Harriet Beecher Stowe

In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them. — Alexis De Tocqueville

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. — John Marshall

It did not speak well of the power of God, in other words, if He needed a human government to prop him up. — Jon Meacham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. — William Rehnquist

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

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

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

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

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

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

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves. — Barbara Tuchman

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

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

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

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

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

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