We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
