Quotes About Government

la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada

Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones.

La consciente e inteligente manipulación de los hábitos organizados y las opiniones de las masas es un elemento importante de la sociedad democrática. Quienes manipulan este desconocido mecanismo de la sociedad constituyen un gobierno invisible que es el verdadero poder en nuestro país... La inteligente minoría necesita hacer uso continuo y sistemático de la propaganda».

la peor enemiga de la propiedad y del gobierno era la nobleza latifundista, aquella aristocracia rentista que a menudo se las arregló para derribar a los gobiernos que limitaban sus poderes

la peor enemiga de la propiedad y del gobierno era la nobleza latifundista, aquella aristocracia rentista que a menudo se las arregló para derribar a los gobiernos que limitaban sus poderes, y que, por lo mismo, fue siempre una amenaza para la justicia, la paz social y el progreso.

Hay, claro, estadios intermedios entre una democracia intervenida por una determinada política parcial o atenuada de controles y una sociedad totalitaria o policial donde el Estado controla prácticamente el cien por ciento de las actividades sociales. Pero

Él creía —era uno de sus grandes errores— que la distinción entre socialismo totalitario y democrático es una ilusión, algo provisional y aparente que, en la práctica, se iría borrando a favor del primero.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government

The upbeat DHS report was some kind of high-water mark for government gall—a tough record to beat. After sitting back and watching the Cabal do all the work, and nearly succeed, Uncle Sam finally found a role for himself: proclaim victory and then stick a flag in it!

One of its analysts was Daniel Ellsberg, who at the time was back in the States compiling the report that—after he leaked it to the press in 1971—would become known as The Pentagon Papers. The study showed that American leaders had been systematically lying about the scope and progress of the war for years and had consistently enlarged it despite doubts that the effort could succeed.

We have nobody in Washington that sits back and says, 'You're not going to raise that fucking price!'" And the Chinese: "Listen, you motherfuckers, we're going to tax you 25 percent!

Government entomologists and chemical company publicists freely employed metaphors that compared insects and Communists. At Columbia University in 1946, former British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested that Communists should study termites in order to see what their future had in store. Unintentionally clarifying the threatening metaphor, the president of the American Economic Entomologists entitled his 1947 speech "Totalitarian Insects.

Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.

The adversary must first be made into a demon before people will accept the war. This was why during the Cold War, the U.S. government became infuriated at any

Toward the end of the first century A.D., a Confucian government minister had them once more abolished, declaring, "Government sale of salt means competing with subjects for profit. These are not measures fit for wise rulers.

Politics and nationalism often play far greater roles than conservation in the decision-making process.

THE ROMANS PAID homage to democracy, the rights of the common citizen and, for a time, republicanism. But

all government work, including that stored in libraries, to be switched from parchment to paper.

Wherever church government is mingled with ambition, we find leaders who value members primarily for how they contribute to the church's vision.

The United States has the most powerful government, with the longest reach, of any nation in history. It is also the Brokest Nation in History. Resolving that contradiction is unlikely to be pretty.

Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.

About half the global economy is living beyond not only its means but its diminished number of children's means. Instead of addressing that fact, countries with government debt of 125 percent of GDP are being rescued by countries with government debt of 80 percent of GDP. Good luck with that.

In his book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift, Paul Rahe writes, Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own affairs. But today the state cocoons one's own affairs so thoroughly as to remove almost all responsibility from modern life, and much of human dignity with it. And, if personal consequences have been all but abolished, societal consequences are harder to dodge...A society of children cannot survive, no matter how all-embracing the government nanny.

We give far more to charity per capita than Europeans do. Why? Are we born better? No. The bigger the government the worse the citizen. They are preoccupied in Europe with how much time off. Where will they vacation? When will they retire? These are selfish questions, these are not altruistic questions. So the goodness that America created is jeopardized by our not knowing what we stand for. That's our greatest threat. We are our problem.