Quotes about govern
government law president
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Al Gore
government long people
As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
government ice sea
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.
government being-thankful pay
One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for. Charles Kettering
government would-be answers
Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!] Charles Clarke
government self tyrants
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well Charles Colson
government intrinsic-value human-life
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
government poor south-africa
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. Charlayne Hunter-Gault
government political democracy
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. Charles A. Beard
government design nuclear
The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. Charles Bass
government design nuclear
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
government space world
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world. Blaise Pascal
government arms realizing
What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all One?...You can see why the government's cracking down. Bill Hicks
government new-inventions patents
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. Ludwig von Mises
government disappear-completely practice
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.
government self views
Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but - on the contrary - bring about a state of affairs which - from the very point of view of the government and its supporters - is even more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they wanted to 'improve.'
government liberty unemployment
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
government left people
American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. Tom Wolfe
government middle necessary thriving
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. Timothy Noah
government people
What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.
government homes last life months nursery nursing proper schools six spending
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life. Thomas Friedman
government politics nuisance
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? Charles Olson
government levels climate
Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government. Arnold Schwarzenegger
government use monopoly
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force. Ayn Rand
government ifs controlled
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
government evil abuse
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.
government cost shapes
All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.
government liberty special
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.
government organization political
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.
government giving guarantees
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.
government liberty use
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism.
government people support
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
government liberty poison
All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.