Quotes about government
government oriented people
People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government. Bob McDonnell
government office please
Please tell your government and everyone in your office to go f*** themselves. Henry Rollins
government great relations second standing visit
My second visit now is to your great country. We have long standing relations with your country, with your government and with your people.
government lack oversight
One of the focuses of the investigation will be the lack of regulatory oversight of government employees. Robert Hall
government interests represent student surprised
I was surprised (it failed). I thought Student Government was there to represent the interests of the students, but that didn't happen.
government lebanon able
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. Bashar al-Assad
government freedom-of-speech sound
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted ; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free. Baruch Spinoza
government opinion crime
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
government drug arms
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government. Barbara Mertz
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 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.
government liberty doe
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government.
government evil church
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.
government law
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. Bertrand Russell
government political humanity
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State. Benito Mussolini
government useless would-be
It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
government affection bases
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. Benjamin Disraeli
government discipline political
I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.
government people paper
The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.
government evil weak-government
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
government representative-government representatives
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
government numbers long
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.