Comfort Quote by Robert Dale Owen

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

— Aaron Swartz

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government…

— Ron Paul

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there…

— Ayn Rand

“In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

— Rudolph Rummel

“We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it.…

— Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One…

— Ayn Rand

“The power of destruction which had once been the ultimate privilege of government was now the only power left in the world--and it was…

— H.G. Wells

For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the…

— Ronald Reagan

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

— Thurgood Marshall

“Most governments strive to keep the masses from thinking; if the masses began to think the government would not be in power - rjs”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

— Errico Malatesta

Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.

— Luther Strange

Arbitrary government power is being multiplied daily by the now practically unchallenged assumption that wherever there is any problem of any kind to be…

— Henry Hazlitt