Rudy Giuliani Quotes

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Power should be a check to power.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I like control.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Power must never be trusted without a check.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.