Balanced Quote by Rudolph Rummel

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

— Sheldon Richman

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

— Charley Reese

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

— James Bovard

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

— Wael Ghonim

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

— John C. Calhoun

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 more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must…

— Henry Hazlitt

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they…

— James Madison

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

— John Hospers

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force,…

— Millicent Fenwick