G Quotes
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“Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.”
“Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two
“Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.”
“Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.”
“Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.”
“Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.”
“Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.”
Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More
“Government is waging war against the people.”
“Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.”
“Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.”
“Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.”
“Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.”
“Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.”
“Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.”
“Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.”
“Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.”
“Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.”
Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...
“Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.”
“Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.”
“Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.”
“Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.”
“Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.”
“Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.”
Source: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
“Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.”
“Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.”
Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays
“Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.”
Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays
“Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.”
“Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.”
Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
“Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.”
“Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.”
“Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.”
“Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
Source: The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America
“Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.”
“Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.”
“Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.”
“Government not just for a few, it belongs to the common people.”
“Government of baboons invests in police 'n defense contracts, while a truly civilized government invests in education.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.”
“Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.”
Source: Collected Works
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
“Government of the world begins in us. It's not the sincere who govern the world, but neither is it the insincere; it's those who create in themselves a real sincerity by artificial and automatic means. This sincerity is what makes them strong, and it outshines the less false sincerity of others. To be adept at deluding oneself is the first prerequisite for a statesman. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Government or politicians are deliberately, intentionally breaking and destroying everything so that their failures will look like they are doing something.”
“Government organizations are also regularly sharing a lot of data, which can be used for market research.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.”
“Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.”
“Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"”
Source: Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)
“Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.”
“Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense”