Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society - ours - tended to believe that a large portion of our rights were inherent and couldn't be abrogated by governments, even if this seemed necessary.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy.

The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, masses about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive men [i.e. governments], and the men who succumb to their own motive forces.

In the larger life of society, the people are made to submit to the orders of those who were originally meant to serve them—the government and its agents.

Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

In a sense, the police power is but another name for the power of government.

Historically, both religious and secular laws originate from the same source

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.

Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.