Assuming Quote by Herbert Spencer

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they…

— Thomas Jefferson

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never…

— Frank Chodorov

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

— Immanuel Kant

If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily…

— John Taylor

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

— Gary Zukav

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

— Richard Dreyfuss

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period,…

— George Washington

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it…

— Antonin Scalia

Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one…

— George Mason

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell