Government Quotes
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Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.
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We will continue economic support for the Palestinian Authority. We want to see how the new government is formed. After that we will decide what to do, but we will never abandon the Palestinian people.
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Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
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The government of Sudan should not have anything against the UN.
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The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.
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I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.
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The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.
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In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.
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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
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This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
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Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil fuel industry thinks that they have just absolute free rein to go for it. The one thing in the way is public opposition. It's civil society. It's activism.
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Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
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Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.
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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.
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Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.
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Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring.
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At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
