Quotes about govern
government political liberty
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual. James Bovard
government people evil
The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.
government order numbers
The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.
government people political
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.
government people reins
As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.
government law numbers
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.
government expansion moral
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
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 uniting may
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
government liberty association
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
government politics should
Yes, and you should question your government. Jessica Lange
government belief endeavor
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. Jeremy Bentham
government political politics
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
government order atmosphere
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.
government evil publicity
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.