“The true root of all evil is power, and both government and religion are effective tools for massing and maintaining power. When” — David Silverman 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
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
When the Statist makes a wrong decision, its impact is far-reaching, for he uses the power of government to impose his decision… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson 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 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 coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
“See, one of the serious illusions we live under in the United States, which is a major part of the whole system… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.” — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,… — Mark Hemingway Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government… — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
