Bill Greene Quotes

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.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.

My mind is appalled at the thought of a political party having control of all the details that go to make up the sum total of our lives. Think of it for an instant, that the party in power shall have all authority to dictate the kind of books that shall be used in our schools and universities, government officials editing, printing, and circulating our literature, histories, magazines and press, to say nothing of the thousand and one activities of life that a people engage in, in a civilized society.

All socialism involves slavery.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

Socialism means slavery.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

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.

... a step in the direction of tyranny.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them. Life will descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism, and the world will be better for it.....

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

… socialism is not a system for redistributing wealth but a system to control people and competitors

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

All [political] parties, without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

Dictators have the power and funds to hire sycophants who encourage them in their delusions.

… new authoritarians are conducting an epoch-making historical experiment as to whether regimes that allow private freedoms can endure when they deny their citizens public freedom.