Quotes of: Big-government Keyword

As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence in order to make all people o...

Liberty And Property

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be...

Russell Smith

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. ...

Rush Limbaugh

Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by the government. It is being compiled on big server farms and it's being analyzed by different computer programs, looking for any hint that you and I...

Brad Thor

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information ab...

Douglas Rushkoff

It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessari...

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Only when a new government comes to power do you learn to appreciate the values of the old one.

Myanmar

A big fish is caught with big bait.

Sierra Leonean

The big fish is caught with big bait.

Sierra Leonean

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Pat Robertson

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

Darrell Issa

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to interv...

Joseph Sobran

I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control." Logan continued, "You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government. You are fed by the government, clo...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Ronald Reagan

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

John Pilger

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

Lysander Spooner

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Mackenzie King

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

Richard M. Daley

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

James Hansen