Quotes About Society

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.