Quotes About Government

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.