Government Quotes

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

In effect, the poor person is a rich person left to fend for him or herself, without the support of institutions that help the person to take 'good' decisions.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government.

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion, Having a democratic government means that they don't have to listen.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

Maintaining a fair and accessible justice system should at all times be the overarching concern of Government

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

But there's nothing wrong with being scared. I think everyone's a little scared. Even the government.

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.