Quotes About Government

are deceptive. Almost all of the new forms of paper money that emerged were not originally created by governments at all; they were simply ways of recognizing and expanding the use of credit instruments that emerged from everyday economic transactions.

Todos los estados-nación modernos están construidos sobre la base del gasto deficitario. La deuda se ha erigido en tema central de la política internacional. Pero nadie parece saber exactamente qué es ni qué pensar de ella.

ÖrneÄŸin Ä°ngiliz liberalizmi devlet bürokrasisinin azalt?lmas?na deÄŸil, tam aksine yol açm??t?r; özerk bireyler aras?nda özgür sözleÅŸme ÅŸeklindeki liberal rüyay? mümkün k?lan hukuk görevlileri, sicil memurlar?, müfettiÅŸler, noterler ve polis memurlar? kadrolar?n?n durmaks?z?n ÅŸiÅŸmesine.

Bir "devlet" dairesinde fiilen görevli memurlar gurubu, gerekli maddi gereçler ve dosyalarla birlikte "daireyi" oluÅŸturur. Özel giriÅŸimde "daire" genellikle "ofis" diye adland?r?l?r.

Police are bureaucrats with weapons.

The moment a yokel, whether he be a government fruit fly, a corporate fruit fly or a PC pajama boy, turns on his television set, he immediately forgets how meaningless his life is.

Roll-over Carthage and Babylon! With the auspicious embarrassment that only great nations can achieve, America's twenty-first century that began with that Holy Trinity of turdsqueak popcorn farts; George W. Bush, Barack Hussein Obama and Donald Trump, is now being awarded an involuntary colonoscopy without an anesthesia by Comatose Joe Biden and his assistant, Willie Brown's second or third string wifey, Camilla Harris.

I would do a book about how and why we had gone to war in Vietnam, and about the men who were the architects of the war. The basic question behind the book was why men who were said to be the ablest to serve in government in this century had been the architects of what struck me as likely to be the worst tragedy since the Civil War.

He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.

Those years would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose in government, the advocates of force were always better organized, seemed more numerous and seemed to have both logic and fear on their side, and that in fending them off in his own government, a President would need all the help he possibly could get, not the least of which should be a powerful Secretary of State.

A legitimate government does not lose face easily, but an insecure government with little in the way of indigenous roots takes its image very seriously.

Up to then there had been something of a gentleman's agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the Kennedy Administration was one of excellence, that it was for good things and against bad things, and that when it did lesser things it was only in self-defense, and in order that it might do other good things.

Those years [as the war progressed] would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose in government, the advocates of force were always better organized, seemed more numerous and seemed to have both logic and fear on their side, and that in fending them off in his own government, a President would need all the help he possibly could get, not the least of which should be a powerful Secretary of State.

We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define a common good... It seems long ago now, that excitement which swept through the country, or at least the intellectual reaches of it, that feeling that America was going to change, that the government had been handed down from the tired, flabby chamber-of-commerce mentality of the Eisenhower years to the best and brightest of a generation.

His closing promise of survival for "government of the people, by the people, for the people" may have had its origin in Daniel Webster's 1830 speech calling the American government "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," but more probably he derived it from a sermon of Theodore Parker, to which Herndon had called his attention, defining democracy as "a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.

Lincoln seems to have had the unusual notion that a public servant's first duty is to help people, rather than to follow bureaucratic regulations.

If "persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob," "if the laws be continually despised and disregarded," Lincoln warned, citizens' affection for their government must inevitably be alienated.

But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than sixty years ago why the socialist system could not work and, thus, why it would eventually collapse, as it did in 1989.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

Extensive conquests, when pursued, must be the ruin of every free government

Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they abate the active powers of men; depress courage, invention, and genius; and produce a universal lethary in the people.

I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;

It is well known, that every government must come to a period, and that death is unavoidable to the political as well as to the animal body.

In all governments, there is a perpetual intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty; and neither of them can ever absolutely prevail in the contest.