Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed, — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power. — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
“In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power,… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions'… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's… — James Comey Copy Share Image
As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“What if the new political spectrum has on one side those people who want to be left alone, those who want to… — Matt Kibbe Copy Share Image
“Three of the most important factors in determining to what degree a government’s power will be controlled or uncontrolled therefore are: (1)… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The greatest risk in giving our government any power to control our speech is that it would then have a vehicle to… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
