This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

Every American regardless of their background has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money power and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

It was settled by the Constitution the laws and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts because tax cuts give people more power and take away from the role of government.

The control of information is something the elite always does particularly in a despotic form of government. Information knowledge is power. If you can control information you can control people.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

Well first of all I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is they believe that for years and years and years the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

The essence of Government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.

Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them that the constitutional charter under which the several branches of government hold their power is derived.

Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

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.