Adolf Hitler Quotes

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.