Quotes About Government

The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

the result will be the expansion of government.

the FHA-induced easy credit began to push up the price of houses for the middle class, and that quickly offset any real advantage of the subsidy.

usually this starts out as an inefficient dictatorship, but by the time they get the U.N. money, it ends up as an efficient dictatorship

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

The new business model for America is clearly recognizable. Its dominant feature is the merger of government, real estate, and commerce into a single structure, tightly controlled at the top. It is the same model used in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Communist China.

Behind the troubled banks and the increasingly troubled insurance agencies stands "the full faith and credit" of the Government—in effect, a promise, sure to be honored by Congress, that all citizens will chip in through taxes or through inflation to make all depositors whole.80

When the fund was exhausted, the solvent banks were punished by being forced to pay for the deficits of the insolvent ones.

LAW: Long-term price stability is possible only when the money supply is based upon the gold (or silver) supply without government interference.

All government is an ugly necessity.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution

friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons.

Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

People tell boring lies about politics

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

If con is the opposite of pro, and progress is good, what is Congress?

Voting system can be the beginning of democracy, but quality and reliability of the service delivery system shows final face of the democracy.

The Gilded Age was much like today; the rich went on a rampage, gutting, by fair means or foul, any institution or principle that protected ordinary people against organized greed. At the end of it, the majority of the American people insisted, against enormous opposition, that the government's powers, structure, and values be modernized to reflect the interests of ordinary people rather than solely those of the wealthy.

The people's right to alter or abolish their form of government was, to the American revolutionaries, supposedly absolute. Yet, strangely, neither the people nor the states may even begin the process of amending the Constitution until Congress permits. That body "whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary," may propose an amendment or amendments and send them to the states for ratification.

Article. I. Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.