Government Quotes

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections

If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governm

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

Money equals power

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.

I was born unworthy. - X-10

We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people.

In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying is a lie.

One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should.

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. NetworkEtiquette.net

Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

The term "racist" comes from the word "racialist": Someone that sees the world from a racial prism.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism

, I believe in some type of free market system. I just don’t think you’ll find an example of one completely free from government intervention.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix

Even Adam Smith's "invisible hand" occasionally needs a slap on the wrist.

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.

Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.

Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda

Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.