Government Abuse Quotes

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury

Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut his head off.

When the [political] clubhouse gets control of the seat of government, invariably the private interest outweighs the public interest, and corruption sets in.

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

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

If the national government falls into the hands of sufficiently unprincipled men, they can do terrible things before any one can stop them.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition

The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared.... The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse of the constitution by the government.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Our government is corrupt.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.

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

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

In all questions between a government and an individual the presumption in every Englishman's mind is that the government is in the wrong.

… all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state. It is a reason which I own I cannot penetrate.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

I don't know why we need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.