The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Th...
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.
I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is always on the side of the governed." Whether it's a military society, a partially free society, or what we - not h...
[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom." -William F Buckley
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessari...
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
