Quotes About Government Abuse Of Power

#1. The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

Ron Paul

#2. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Steve Stockman

#3. By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

John Roberts

#4. When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. Private jets cost a lot of money.

Donald Trump

#6. I do at least 75 push-ups a day.

Twyla Tharp

#7. I told him that without me he wouldn't be able to find his arse with his two hands,

Bill Carson

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

James Madison

#9. When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Thomas Hobbes

#10. The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Ted Nugent

#11. Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

Gustave Le Bon

#12. The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.

Sarah Harrison

#13. I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

Jack Nicholson

#14. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.

Charles Evans Hughes

#15. The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#16. Truth is the power that will resolve our problems.

Imran Khan

#17. I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

Susana Martinez

#18. How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

John C. Calhoun

#19. Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

John Galt

#20. I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

James Black

#21. Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

Jimmy Reid

#22. The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Baltasar Gracian

#23. Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Honore De Balzac

#24. Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.

-my personal pen and paper

Amanda Lovelace

#26. Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

William Hazlitt

#27. When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Jonathan Swift

#28. Sad things are beautiful only from a distance
therefore you just want to get away from them
from a distance of one hundred and thirty years
... i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

Tao Lin

#29. Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,

Ron Paul

#30. As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

John Fund

#31. Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

Pete Stark

#32. When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

Howard Zinn

#33. The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government,

Harry Reid