Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

Ludwig von Mises

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Ludwig von Mises

All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.

Ludwig von Mises

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Ludwig von Mises

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Ludwig von Mises

There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions

Ludwig von Mises

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

They say that if I win that I'll take away benefits, but the only one who has expropriated things from you is this government. After visiting all around our Venezuela, I don't have a doubt that we will win.

We get no government money; we rely on volunteer donation.

Grover Norquist

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Grover Norquist

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

Grover Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

Grover Norquist

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Grover Norquist

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Grover Norquist

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

Marsha Blackburn

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

Chris Evans

You are effectively presiding over the end of government accountability in the Senate.

Jaswant Singh

We will revert shortly to the government of Pakistan with alternative dates,

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

Virtually every part of state government has had to find efficiencies.

Muhammad Yunus

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

Roy Moore

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Paul Kurtz

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

Peter MacKay

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

Donna Brazile

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

Noam Chomsky

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Mike Miller

Without help from our government we'd be out of business.

Subcomandante Marcos

With its military and media campaign, the government has managed only to reduce the already narrow space for intermediate positions,

We have maintained at least 400 police officers at Government House as we know that anti-government rallies will continue.

Louis Farrakhan

When the government wants something, they have to justify what they want by doing something -- whether it injures a hundred, whether it injures a thousand, whether it injures millions,

We welcome Libya's first steps toward reform. But the government has a long road to travel before it meets the international standards of human rights.