Quotes about Control

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

That this world's general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be controlled, And that thou hast but one way, not to admit The world's infection, to be none of it.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.