Quotes about govern
government political politics
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms. Thomas Paine
government political politics
"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."
government political politics
It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.
government would-be arbitrary
A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.
government political age
Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.
government ideas clear
To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.
government democracy form
A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is!
government sovereign principles
...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
government dresses innocence
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.
government religion reviews
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.
government constitution
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
government hands taxation
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
government liberty principles
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.
government common-sense wickedness
Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
government society politics
The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master. Thomas Huxley
government desire saws
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. Thomas Clarkson
government long waiting
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. Timothy Geithner
government financial crisis
Financial crises require governments.
government way consciousness
Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness. Timothy Leary
government people liberty
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention. Thomas Sowell
government potato-chips potatoes
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.
government guarantees-that cost
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.
government people looks
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.
government people community
The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.
government people planning
What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
government people decision
Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.
government want government-officials
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
government practice tunes
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely.
government worry people
The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.
government vision affordable-housing
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.
government saving hyperinflation
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
government people pay
High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
government numbers political
However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.