Quotes about govern
government practice armenia
The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April. James Bryce
government thieves aids
Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves. James Bovard
government numbers people
Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.
government political liberty
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
government people evil
The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.
government order numbers
The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.
government people political
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.
government people reins
As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.
government law numbers
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.
government expansion moral
Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
government numbers democracy
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.
government imagination political
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.
government agreement people
The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.
government law america
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .
government one-day noble
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
government shepherds chiefs
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
government dangerous loses
The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.
government liberty lists
The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?
government rights constitution
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
government people biased
The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.
government important liberty
If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.
government tragedy knows
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
government agitation prose
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. Jairam Ramesh
government euphemism governance
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government. Jacques Attali
government agreement unions
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more. Jacques Delors
government people discipline
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse . Jeane Kirkpatrick
government democracy assuming
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
government influence position
[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.
government liberty libertarian
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
government people historical
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority. Glenn Reynolds
government together doe
Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn't the least bit true. Many of the things government does, we don't choose. Many of the things we choose, government doesn't do. And whatever gets done, we're not the ones doing it. And those who are doing it often interpret their mandates selfishly.
government political failing
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
government prohibition modern
A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.