Government control Quote by Mark R. Levin

“By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same…

— Edmund Burke

“Any government that presumes to direct how its people relate to ultimate truths either believes it is the only guide to those truths, or…

— Timothy Shah

“Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and…

— John Adams

“Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone - that of the state. In…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited…

— George Orwell

“You were made to be ruled. It is the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. In the end, you will always kneel”

— Loki Laufeyson

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“In this century, the human race faces, once again, the virulent reign of the State—of the State now armed with the fruits of man’s…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“When we survey the wretched conditions of man, under the monarchical and hereditary systems of Government, dragged from his home by one power, or…

— Thomas Paine