Government Quotes
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Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
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The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
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The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
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There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.
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Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
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Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
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Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
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I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.
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We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.
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If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.
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From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.
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The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
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No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
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The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
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The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.
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It is important to stand up and say the government is wrong.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
