If legislators come to believe that police power is an ever-present constitutional trump card they can play whenever it suits them, overreaching… — Don Willett Copy Share Image
The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them - it isn’t. What the FDA is… — Herbert L. Ley, Jr Copy Share Image
The FDA protects the big drug companies, and is subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers, they attack those who threaten… — Herbert L. Ley, Jr Copy Share Image
September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Patrol was not difficult work. They stopped any niggers they saw and demanded their passes. They stopped niggers they knew to be… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach… — Ithiel de Sola Pool Copy Share Image
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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