Famous Quotes About power

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

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

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.