Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Feelings of marginalization and cries of separation are symptomatic of countries where rulers find power sweet and intoxicating, where power is coveted, and when acquired, painstakingly guarded.

Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

Everyone can relate to being stuck in a traffic jam.

The most express declarations and reservations are necessary to protect the just rights and liberty of mankind from the silent, powerful and ever active conspiracy of those who govern.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, ... that is tyranny.

With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor ... Each of the things is, by the respective party, called by two different and incompatible names—liberty and tyranny.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

No state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

There are two things we don’t like to talk about: bad government and bad culture.

I love the government and the Constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.

Democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

It is a favorite maxim of despotick power, that mankind are not made to govern themselves.

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny…

We are governed by swine!!!

Those who shall have tasted actual freedom I believe can never be slaves, or quasi slaves again.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

More than a quarter of a century of despotic Japanese rule in Formosa, then, has produced the following results: law and order, economic prosperity, elevated standards of living, widespread education, and rising political discontent.

The thing which he proposes to buy is what cannot be sold—liberty. He proposes to you to substitute the British Parliament in your place …. Against such a body, were I expiring on the floor, I should beg to utter my last breath and record my dying testimony.

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ...

Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best..

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.