Quotes of: State-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

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

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

War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Mitch Daniels

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

All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for mould...

On Liberty

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

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

Paul Broun

Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this is extremely weak, it has not stopped the state and federal govern...

The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possibl...

The Big Over Easy

Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience sh...

The Spirit of the Laws

Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its r...

Politics

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would af...

Matt Taibbi

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a per...

Carl Cohen