Quotes About Government

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

W]hat is this law of the greatest number which modern governments invoke and in which they claim to find their sole justification? It is simply the law of matter and brute force, the same law by which a mass, carried down by its weight, crushes everything that lies in its track. It is precisely here that we find the point of junction of the democratic conception and materialism...

His specific brief was to cultivate contacts in the Nazi party. It's something we've been slow to get on to. Like others, we've tended to dismiss them as rabble. Now it looks as though they may form part of the next government. Or, God forbid, end up running it.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.

We all should know what the Right's agenda is here: privatize education, kill public schools, and transfer the teaching of the young to private entities.

The US Treasury is simply not a church building fund.

governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.

I think the police and the FBI are quite capable of sacrificing the rights of a private citizen to what they consider the public interest.

Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.

September 1939 From: His Majesty's Government To: Civilian Population of Great Britain For the duration of the war, the following Seven Rules are to be observed at all times. Do not waste food. Do not talk to strangers. Keep all information to yourself. Always listen to government instructions and carry them out. Report anything suspicious to the police. Do not spread rumours. Lock away anything that might help the enemy if we are invaded.

According to the Tax Foundation, Tax Freedom Day is April 19, meaning that every dollar you earn for the first four months of the year goes to taxes. Put another way, you work nearly three hours of each workday just to pay taxes.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Le gouvernement n'est rien d'autre que le gendarme du Capital, l'épouvantable flic qui garde les coffres forts des vautours des banques, du commerce et de l'industrie. Pour le Capital il a du respect et lui est entièrement soumis; pour le peuple, il a les prisons, les casernes et le gibet.

Y fue así como «el Tigrillo» Noriega, el ministro de Gobierno que se había declarado a sí mismo «el único autorizado para dar los resultados», anunció a las tres de la madrugada que, en un giro de los hechos digno del realismo mágico que ha estado poniéndose en boga, Pastrana estaba ganándole a Rojas por 4.346 votos nomás

Suenan las voces de los estudiantes que se quejan, como debe ser, de todos los políticos habidos y por haber

The effect of an unlimited standing rule is to invite parties on the political fringe to displace the judgment of political actors who are likely to be more closely aligned with general public sentiment. How ironic that current law stops private litigation on standing when it is strictly necessary to preserve limited government but allows those suits that tend to undermine the stability of the median voter on matters that are better left to democratic choice.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

In other words, Burt reported that the people were stuck with dumping their human waste out the windows because the available options were too technically demanding, or too expensive for people to agree to, or involved loss of money by established businesspeople who had influence with the government.

Nay, in my opinion, you ought to be ashamed to open your mouths ever hereafter against the present government of the Church, and for the new platform, until you can be contented to be so far from coveting the goods of the Church, as that you are both willing and ready to deliver out of your hand such spoils and preys thereof as you have already.

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple.

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?

Reagan kept saying the deficit was Public Enemy Number One. But then he sent up a budget that would have pumped red ink up over the window sills.