Quotes of: Government-power Keyword

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

Ezra Taft Benson

Only when a new government comes to power do you learn to appreciate the values of the old one.

Myanmar

We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government.

Dave Champion

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

P. J. O'Rourke

To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested only in increasing their control and any governance that came out of the government's acti...

Zaftan Entrepreneurs

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government con...

James Madison

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Tony Blair

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new gove...

Little Brother

I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of t...

Nick Clegg

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powe...

James Q. Wilson

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Jose Saramago

Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which ar...

Noreena Hertz

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Governmen...

Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no...

Lysander Spooner

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

Matt Drudge

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Andrew Jackson

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the grea...

Considerations on Representative Government

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

Monica Crowley

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prev...

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new g...

Declaration of Independence