Quotes about government
government liberty destroying
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself. Arthur Miller
government political knows
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government. Art Hoppe
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 indian indians laws
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot. George Crook
government happen hope iranian march movement side
We hope very much from the Iranian side some movement will take place before that date. If nothing happens, the Iranian government should know what may happen on March 6. Javier Solana
government meeting might officials people understanding union
We have people who, right now, are meeting with people in the government and union officials to try to get a better understanding of how long this thing might last.
government liberty form
All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. Edward Abbey
government self support
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
government people violence
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
government enemy
All governments require enemy governments.
government political purpose
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
government liberty roles
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
government clerks demand
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
government enemy needs
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
government broken people
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
government subjects
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects. Aristotle
government democracy form
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.
government political noble
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. . . .Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.
government tyrants justice
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
government office discipline
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
government views law
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.
government law justice
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
government action virtue
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
government class democracy
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
government names two
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government;
government democracy oligarchy
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
government two democracy
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.
government election made
A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;
government people what-if
But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?
government law numbers
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.