Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.

Ludwig von Mises

There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.

Ludwig von Mises

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

Ludwig von Mises

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Ludwig von Mises

All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.

Ludwig von Mises

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Ludwig von Mises

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Ludwig von Mises

There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions

Ludwig von Mises

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

They say that if I win that I'll take away benefits, but the only one who has expropriated things from you is this government. After visiting all around our Venezuela, I don't have a doubt that we will win.

We get no government money; we rely on volunteer donation.

Grover Norquist

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Grover Norquist

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

Grover Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

Grover Norquist

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Grover Norquist

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Grover Norquist

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

Marsha Blackburn

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

Peter MacKay

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

Philip Massinger

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

Peter Jensen

We know that they're effective, we know they're safe. And there's been some very large government-funded studies that have established this,

Peter Singer

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.

Paul Wolfowitz

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.

Preneet Kaur

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

Marco Rubio

There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.

We had once thought Mr. Koizumi's government could meet our expectations, but it now seems we may have overestimated their ability.

Chris Evans

You are effectively presiding over the end of government accountability in the Senate.

Jaswant Singh

We will revert shortly to the government of Pakistan with alternative dates,

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

Virtually every part of state government has had to find efficiencies.

We're really pleased that the governor has shown, at least in our first negotiating sessions on this, that she seems to mean business.