Quotes About Government

Furthermore, those seeking government privileges, or lucrative posts in the bureaucracy, perform an economic role entirely different from that of people genuinely engaged in trade; those so engaged oppose interference with their trade. It is highly misleading to lump the two together into the term "merchants.

if a judicial decree of "unconstitutional" is a mighty check to government power, an implicit or explicit verdict of "constitutional" is a mighty weapon for fostering public acceptance of ever-greater government power

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 necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus.

And, indeed, what is the State anyway but organized banditry? What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale? What is war but mass murder on a scale impossible by private police forces? What is conscription but mass enslavement? Can anyone envision a private police force getting away with a tiny fraction of what States get away with, and do habitually, year after year, century after century?

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a "social contract"; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation.

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible 'anarchy', why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as being in a state of impermissible 'anarchy,' why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighborhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

My government will respect the will of the people.

A capitalist regime is more likely to produce these narcissistic behaviours in its citizens compared to a socialist country.

A win-win strategy or situation will ensure that both the citizens and the government are cooperating and collaborating accordingly.

Africa is not a dirty continent, it is just filled with disorganized government figures.

Any political party that does not respect or consider the importance of nature in general cannot be tolerated within society.

Birth control methods have no benefit, whatsoever, for the multitude. But they are only useful to the government that wishes to control its small populated nation.

Dictatorship is when the government can easily control and manipulate citizens' demands.

Freedom is sweeter than peace. Meaning, every country that has a prime minister without a president as the head of the state; has got peace but not freedom. Their sovereignty is nothing but an illusion.

Housing goes hand-in-hand with renting and when I mention the word rent you already know that taxation is involved too.

Like employment, housing is also politicised too.

Only socialism promises the rule of the many and it is the only policy that applies the concept of democracy.

Politics is born from different ideologies and economics shapes our political views.

Since we all know that the principle of any relationship is give and take, government and citizens must also follow the same law. Citizens must work for the government and the govt must work for the benefit of their citizens too. Do you work to live or live to work?!