From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Power in the hands of the State is less inhibited morally and more destructive physically than in Society.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Americans have…largely ceased to reflect upon the implications of the unconditional surrender of power to political government…wholly contrary to the principles of the Republic …

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Power it has, and force, and techniques to make its commands effective…But since the State has no conscience, and is primarily a continuing mechanism of material power, the human welfare side of State activity should blind no thoughtful person to its underlying menace.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

The development of the State has been that of constant aggrandizement. Necessarily, that aggrandizement has been…at the expense of Society and of the individuals who create Society…

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Man…is now exchanging membership in Society for servitude to the State.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

The State, in short, subjects people; whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

The survival of the Republic is not endangered by weakness in the central government, but by popular pressure for its aggrandizement.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Arbitrary power in a democracy may be just as great a menace to liberty as the outright tyranny of a dictatorship.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Arbitrary power in a democracy may be just as great a menace to liberty as the outright tyranny of a dictatorship.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Although the democratic ideal encourages individualism, the actual operation of a democratic system produces a centralization of power hostile to self-reliance.