Quotes about Control

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

People do not make wars; governments do.