Quotes about Control
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!
— Thomas Jefferson
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.
— Grover Norquist
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
— CS Lewis
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
— John Lennon
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
— Ronald Reagan
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Thomas Paine
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
— Benjamin Disraeli