Government Quote by Charley Reese

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more…

— Rudolph Rummel

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

— Samuel Johnson

Power which can be abused, will be abused.

— Jim Warner

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely…

— Vaclav Havel

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

— John C. Calhoun

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

— John Galt

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so,…

— Elliot Richardson

Power is of an encroaching nature.

— James Madison

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

— Mike Cloud

[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power…

— Barry Goldwater

The property of power is to protect.

— Blaise Pascal