Quotes about govern
government luxury paris
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government? Peter Kropotkin
government anarchist anarchism
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.
government law humanity
The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property, protection of persons, protection of government. And by analyzing each of these three categories, we arrive at the same logical and necessary conclusion: the uselessness and hurtfulness of law.
government medicine people
[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine. Peter Ferrara
government dieting eating
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting. Peter Blair Henry
government decision environment
A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.
government disappointed
I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed. Phil Gramm
government people growth
Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
government numbers house
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary. Peter Schiff
government capitalism
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
government printing-money citizens
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
government democratic term
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic. Peter Senge
government exciting
Anything government or politics is always exciting for me. Peter Jacobson
government house balance
Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances. Peter Costello
government miracle liberty
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. Thomas Jefferson
government people liberty
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
government office political
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
government world aristocracy
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
government masters servant
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
government ideas sheep
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.
government people liberty
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
government citizens taxation
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
government criticism intention
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
government departure ingredients
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism...
government newspapers
I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
government grows
As government grows, freedom recedes.
government justice house
The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.
government political tyranny-founding-fathers
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
government paper paper-money
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
government trying libertarian
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
government administration common
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
government degrees public-opinion
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
government citizens may
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.