Quotes about govern
government suffering fool
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. Lester B. Pearson
government evil unlimited
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. Friedrich August von Hayek
government deception management
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
government mind doe
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.
government libertarian dictator
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
government america long
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.
government political economic
You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.
government issues people
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
government democracy way
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
government libertarian scum
In government, the scum rises to the top.
government giving democracy
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
government involvement private-sector
I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector. Frederick W. Smith
government arena century
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
government air effort
I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.
government people trying
It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.
government realizing public-service
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, Franklin D. Roosevelt
government democracy constitution-of-the-united-states
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
government body groups
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
government order liberty
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
government hypocrisy people
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
government liberty democracy
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.
government rights purpose
It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.
government everyday radicalism
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
government politics want
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
government people support
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.
government years two
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.
government numbers people
But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.
government years firsts
The first twelve years are the hardest.
government roles research
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.
government people world
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.
government needs citizens
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.
government progress population
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
government public-opinion opinion
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.