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“People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.”

People Ifs Government Law Loses Enemy Power Dangerous Crushed No Hope Nothing To Lose

Author:Edmund Burke

“Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.”

States Government Political Pay Power Pregnancy Officers Political Power

Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States

“No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.”

Humans Long Government Form Power Mankind Human Nature Bears Safe Tyranny Remedy Forms Of Government Government Tyranny

Book:Johnsonian miscellanies

Source: Johnsonian miscellanies

“Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.”

Mean Two Different Government Force Power Authority Direct Tyranny Command Different Things Request Two Different Things Authority And Power

Book:Man and the State

Source: Man and the State

“The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”

“States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.”

Ifs Mean Long War States Use Government Nations Responsibility Power Security Promise Weapons Bombs Spite Abolish Atomic Bomb Very Mean Biological Weapons

Author:Albert Einstein

“No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.”

Way Matter Bigs Government Powerful Power Smart Contrary Beneficial Big Government Centralized Government

Author:Charles Koch

“In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.”

“The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.”

Government Used Power Duty Property Belonging

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.”

People Hands Government Political Realizing Liberty Power Four Economic Months Built Instruments Thirty Puppets Shackles Autocracy

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.”

States Government Form Power Depends Active Expensive Royalty Monarchy Intimidating Parades Forms Of Government Monarchs Regal Enterprising Constitutional Monarchy

Author:James F. Cooper

“Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.”

Government Power Media Balance Constitution Social Media Profession Checks Journalism Supposed To Be Corporate Journalist Accountability Protected Explicit Supposing

Author:Amy Goodman

“All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.”

Government Power Trust Exercise New Government Public Trust

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”

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Author:Freda Adler

“Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.”

May Mean Long Government Today Accepting Power Dangerous Danger Tomorrow Victim Temptation Friendly Carrie Expanding Implications Coercion Interference Bureaucrats

Author:Owen D. Young

“No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.”

People Mind Soul Government Earth Power Greater Constitution

Author:Cal Thomas

“The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.”

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Author:Gouverneur Morris

“Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.”

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Author:Todd Tiahrt

“EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.”

Government Time Wish Power Effects Duty Department Executives Officers Judicial

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”

People Government Political Power Trust Exercise Spring Intelligent Confusion Repeats New Government Public Trust

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.”

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Book:The Ethics of Redistribution

Source: The Ethics of Redistribution

“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Ifs Men Way Government Accepting Power Judging Kings Absolutes Pope Presumption Canon Absolute Power Power Corrupts Corrupt Power Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Author:Lord Acton

“Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.”

“The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.”

Use Government Literature Numbers Enemy Power Willing Activity Bounds Settling Score Illegal Uncovering Illegal Activities

Author:Bob Woodward

“A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.”

Government Power Defense

Author:James Q. Wilson

“Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.”

People Said States Government Church Roles Power Masters Kings Understood Agendas Meant To Be Throat Luther Levers

Author:Jim Wallis

“Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.”

Men Way Should Self Enough Government Community Responsibility Power Abuse Genuine Arise Temptation Assumption Permit Units Personal Responsibility Great Power Self-government

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.”

Humans Government Political Human Beings Power Dangerous Politician Canada Abuse Of Power Harper Local Government

Author:Farley Mowat

“Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

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