Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Hazlitt

New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.

Henry Hazlitt

Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

Henry Hazlitt

There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It is therefore almost inevitably statist and socialistic.

Henry Hazlitt

The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized government competition, oppressive taxation, or outright expropriation.

Henry Hazlitt

..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the matter. In this way, the supposed miracles of government spending will appear in another light.

Henry Hazlitt

Government planning always involves compulsion.

Henry Hazlitt

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

Henry Hazlitt

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

Henry Hazlitt

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one,

Heather Wilson

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

Henry David Thoreau

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Henry David Thoreau

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Henry David Thoreau

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

Henry David Thoreau

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Henry Ford

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

Manmohan Singh

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

Manmohan Singh

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

Manmohan Singh

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

Malcolm Wallop

Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc..

Malcolm Wallop

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Malcolm Turnbull

People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.

Malcolm X

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Malcolm X

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Mahatma Gandhi

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Mahatma Gandhi

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?