“Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"” ThinkingWorldWantHeartTwoWarBigsGovernmentMightWould BeIndividualCenturyProductsWallOfficeDiseaseShotsToughConnectionsSellsPopulationNuclearPostsCorporationsWar Of The WorldsWickedVietnamDespiseCashHolocaustBusinessmanExplosionsCiviliansBerlinBombingBig GovernmentTwo WorldsPost OfficeBerlin WallGulags Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.” MeanDoeStatesGovernmentIndividualExerciseLocalsConstrainLocal GovernmentUst Author:Barack Obama
“As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.” KnowsStatesGovernmentChurchDutyProtectProfessorsIndispensable Author:Thomas Paine
“There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the 'end of time,' or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.” MenWorldEndsCountryGovernmentAgeCasesGenerationsDescriptionPossessedEnd TimesParliamentPosterityBinding Author:Thomas Paine
“If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed.” IfsHeartBigsGovernmentAbleAmericaFacesNationsFiguresBrotherSucceedPressesThreatChaosLipsWaveCrowdsReportsInternalsChillGlareQuipForeboding Author:Michael Parenti
“It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.” PeopleThinkingGivingIdeasCountryGovernmentCan DoChallengesPoorMistakePrinciplesRichGroupsMilitaryOughtBenefitsConceptsDestructionComplexesStealingWelfareGoodsFraudDictatorPoor PeopleBankersFarceMilitary Industrial Complex Author:Ron Paul
“Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand.” DoeProblemHandsBigsGovernmentFightingInterestEconomySpecialReturnSolutionsDollarsCampaignsRepublicSocialistFederal GovernmentHand In HandSpecial InterestsBig GovernmentLeviathanConstitutional GovernmentMoney Problem Author:Ron Paul
“[T]he vast regulatory structure the federal government has erected in the name of the commerce power cannot be ended overnight, in many cases, but the pretense that such programs are constitutional can be ended, even as the programs themselves are phased out over time.” GovernmentNamesCasesProgramStructureCommerceFederal GovernmentPretenseE Commerce Author:Roger Pilon
