Quotes About Government

More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else—or from themselves.

El Estado jamás presta o da algo a los ciudadanos que previamente no haya obtenido de ellos mismos.

A certain amount of public works—of streets and roads and bridges and tunnels, of armories and navy yards, of buildings to house legislatures, police and fire departments—is necessary to supply essential public services.

Lo que en la conducta de cualquier familia es prudencia —afirmaba el recio sentido común de Adam Smith, replicando a los sofistas de su tiempo— difícilmente puede ser locura en el gobierno de un gran reino.»

This is only another way of saying that the government lenders will take risks with other people's money (the taxpayers') that private lenders will not take with their own money.

Por consiguiente, en el mejor de los casos, la consecuencia de fijar un precio máximo a un artículo determinado será provocar su escasez. Esto es precisamente lo contrario de lo que los gobernantes pretendían, pues precisamente los artículos objeto de tasa son los que más desean mantener en abundante oferta.

las intervenciones de los gobiernos sólo tienen en cuenta las consecuencias que saltan a la vista, pero ignoran las que no se ven

The proposal for government loans to private individuals or projects, in brief, sees B and forgets A. It sees the people into whose hands the capital is put; it forgets those who would otherwise have had it. It sees the project to which capital is granted; it forgets the projects from which capital is thereby withheld. It sees the immediate benefit to one group; it overlooks the losses to other groups, and the net loss to the community as a whole.

Cuando el gobierno subvenciona o concede anticipos, en realidad grava negocios privados prósperos para auxiliar ruinosos negocios privados.

Por cada dólar gastado en el puente habrá un dólar menos en el bolsillo de los contribuyentes. Si el puente cuesta un millón de dólares, los contribuyentes habrán de abonar un millón de dólares, y se encontrarán sin una cantidad que de otro modo hubiesen empleado en las cosas que más necesitaban.

An entrepreneur is a broker between ideas and resources. This is not confined to business; it is at least as much at home in academia. Faculty members write their dreams of undiscovered truths in research proposals addressed persuasively to foundations and government agencies.

Whatever rationale is used to justify expanding the role of the state in economic life, the inescapable outcome will be the increase of coercion. Legal

All Socialism Involves Slavery.

Even though the voters were overwhelmingly in favor of the three-dollar tag, the highway department wasn't about to get off the public tit without putting up a fight.

I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

That's not how national security works... I don't care what the Supreme Court said 30 years ago or what some judge said 15 minutes ago. This is America, and our government is collecting way too damn much data on we the private citizens!

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.