Quotes About Government

The idea that people could get along fine with just markets, and no government, turned out to rest upon a version of what economists call the "compositional fallacy.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

For Madison, on the other hand, "a Public Debt is a Public curse," and "in a Representative Government greater than in any other."26

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

Advertising is a tax paid for being unremarkable.*" If that is true, then this tax is rising fast, which is good news for the government—not to mention production companies, media sellers, and agencies—

the most important question is not whether the government has the power to incarcerate a person—almost invariably, it does. The proper question is whether that power has been exercised lawfully.

If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native land in search of the bare means of subsistence" Charles dickens, american notes

How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five [people] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.

currently many communities on the East Coast dealing with sea-level rise and storm surges nourish their beaches and slow down erosion by strengthening them with large amounts of sand. The Federal government currently covers on average about two thirds of the cost. A March 2015 journal article concludes "a sudden removal of federal nourishment subsidies, as has been proposed, could trigger a dramatic downward adjustment in coastal real estate, analogous to the bursting of a bubble.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

When Russia had disputes with neighbors such as Ukraine over gas prices, it did not hesitate to cut off gas supplies as a form of economic power. Later, when a more sympathetic government came to power in Ukraine, Russia used the lure of heavily discounted gas prices to obtain the extension of its lease of a naval base in Ukraine, thus complicating the prospect that Ukraine might one day join NATO.

There were really only two men I knew who ever got a laugh out of paying their income taxes. One was cheating the government and getting away with it. The other had a sick sense of humor and would probably have set up a concession stand at the Boston Tea Party and sold sugar cubes and lemon slices.

Then, one glorious day, our principal announced that any student with a passing grade-point average could apply for a transfer to the new OASIS public school system. The real public school system, the one run by the government, had been an underfunded, overcrowded train wreck for decades. And now the conditions at many schools had gotten so terrible that every kid with half a brain was being encouraged to stay at home and attend school online.

Now I'm in a top-secret government base somewhere in the middle of fucking Iowa, waiting to find out what the hell is happening. In short—I'm totally losing my shit.

El gobierno nos ha espiado toda la vida, pero al menos tenemos nuestras chucherías favoritas. Algo es algo.

She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.

She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.