Quotes about government
government principles consent-of-the-governed
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Adrian Cronauer
government upset management
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state. Adam Smith
government sight justice
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
government progress able
Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.
government liberty citizens
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
government liberty slavery
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.
government invisible-hand investing
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
government cynicism blanket
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed. Adam McKay
government national raised states threat today united
Today the United States government raised the national threat level. Tom Ridge
government interested political side talking work
When I first read the script, the political side of the story really interested me. I was interested in talking about pharmaceutical companies, and how corporations and government work together, Fernando Meirelles
government intended market
We never intended to have the government play the market in US Airways stock, Mark Dayton
government people benefits
The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others. Ludwig von Mises
government evil balance
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
government coercion compulsion
Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.
government people liberty
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.
government important realizing
Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even less satisfactory than the conditions that prevailed before.
government cogs arbitrary
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
government example doe
History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.
government gold tasks
As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.
government ideas liberty
It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.
government liberty economic
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.
government giving magic
The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.
government credit sake
What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.
government needs satisfaction
On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.
government way obstacles
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.
government-intervention unintended-consequences marketplace
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions...
government views progress
Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.
government evil liberty
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty, and private property against violent attacks. Everything that goes beyond this is an evil. A government that, instead of fulfilling its task, sought to go so far as actually to infringe on personal security of life and health, freedom, and property would, of course, be altogether bad.
government giving doe
The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
government economic monetary-system
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.
government stills loopholes
You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.
government banking granted
It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
government play choices
There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.