Quotes about govern
government expansion moral
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised. James Bovard
government numbers democracy
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.
government imagination political
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.
government agreement people
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.
government law america
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .
government one-day noble
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
government shepherds chiefs
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
government dangerous loses
The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.
government liberty lists
The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?
government rights constitution
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
government people biased
The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.
government important liberty
If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.
government tragedy knows
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
government agitation prose
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. Jairam Ramesh
government euphemism governance
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government. Jacques Attali
government agreement unions
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. Jacques Delors
government president patronage
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President. James Buchanan
government atheism united-states
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
government long way
"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship. J. William Fulbright
government important bankers
The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer. J. R. R. Tolkien
government wells knows
If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well. Jerry Lewis
government hands president
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. Jennifer Granholm
government long people
It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.
government people united-states
Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government. Jeff Cooper
government voice complaining
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it. George Will
government matter judgment
No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.
government
We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
government order punishment
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
government people citizens
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
government self europe
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.
government ideas presidential
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.
government voters responsible
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
government america reform
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.