Quotes about Power
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
- Andrew Jackson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- James Madison
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
- Aesop
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
- George Washington
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
- Edmund Burke
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
- Ayn Rand
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
- Benjamin Disraeli
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
- Edmund Burke
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass