Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 1240 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.~ James Bovard Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn’t hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.~ James Bovard To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.~ James Bovard Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.~ Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.~ Anne Bradstreet We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.~ Justice William J. Brennan There is no such thing as a false idea.~ Justice William J. Brennan Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.~ Reuven Brenner Force is not a remedy.~ John Bright It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.~ David Brin You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.~ Harry Browne A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second.~ Harry Browne Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.~ Harry Browne The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.~ Sir Thomas Browne No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.~ Tammy Bruce As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.~ Tammy Bruce I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.~ Brutus Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.~ William Jennings Bryan You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.~ William Jennings Bryan Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print