Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Marshall

This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

John Marshall

The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.

John Maynard Keynes

The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

John Maynard Keynes

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

John Maynard Keynes

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

John Maynard Keynes

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

John Maynard Keynes

The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.

John Maynard Keynes

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Major

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

John Major

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

John Locke

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

John Locke

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

John Locke

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

John Lewis

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

Pythagoras

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

Pythagoras

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

Josiah Warren

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Josiah Stamp

The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!

Joseph Estrada

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay,

Joseph Farah

Charity is not a government program.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

Konrad Adenauer

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Kofi Annan

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

Kofi Annan

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

Kent Conrad

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Kent Conrad

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

Kathleen Sebelius

The essence of good government is trust.

Mike Huckabee

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Pearl S. Buck

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ...

Philip Emeagwali

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

Peter Ustinov

World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

Peter King

The British government is a murder machine,

Peter Kropotkin

ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.