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“Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.”

“If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.”

“...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.”

Knows Care Given Lines Liberty Rights Politician Draws Sand Tolerate Bureaucrats Encroachment Lines In The Sand

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.”

Men Said States Courses Struggle Modern Kings Humble Servant Sincere Frank Modest Revolt Bureaucrats Handy Bourbon

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.”

Government Interest Views Progress Groups Particular Point Of View Bureaucrats Payroll

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.”

Ifs Stills Egypt Moses Bureaucrats

Book:The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?

Source: The Peter Pyramid, Or: Will We Ever Get the Point?

“I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.”

People Trying Real Government Odd Novelists Idle Bureaucracy Speculation Bureaucrats

Book:Second words: selected critical prose

Source: Second words: selected critical prose

“democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.”

Thinking Philosophy Politics Democracy Dying Bureaucrats Puritan Faceless

Book:A RELATIVE STRANGER\

Source: A RELATIVE STRANGER\

“There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.”

Integrity Judgment Consequence Obvious Superiors Guarantees Arbitrary Bureaucrats Inspectors Entrusting

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.”

Has Beens Real America Trouble Doctors Victim Medical Suits Terrified Businessman Robots Bureaucrats Malpractice

Author:Shana Alexander

“Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.”

People Humans Law Party Objectives Ambitious Mediocre Human Society Bureaucrats

Author:Alexander Zinoviev

“If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.”

Ifs Whole Problem Jobs Economy Congress Tiny Bureaucrats Regulators Trivial Things

Author:Mara Liasson

“Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.”

Ifs Home Might Would Be Individual Diversity Preserves Merit Dull Convenient Bureaucrats Homeschooling Statistician

Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.”

Today Prayer Answers Tomorrow Bureaucrats Follow Up

Book:The Bohemian Connection

Source: The Bohemian Connection

“Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones?”

Thinking Two Humor Form Political Answers Five Hundred Program Phones Spending Eighty Files Bureaucrats Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”

Real Facts Understanding Ability Figures Genuine Grades Curriculum Bureaucrats Real Education

Author:Aaron Swartz

“Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.”

People Knows Should Government Secret Politician Bureaucrats

Author:Wayne Allyn Root

“The bureaucrat fell from the sky.”

Sky Bureaucrats

Author:Michael Swanwick

“What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?”

Ifs President Dying Criminals Jail Juniors Bureaucrats Convicts

Author:Asif Ali Zardari

“Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.”

Knows Needs Should Believe Children Government School Choices I Believe Parent I Believe In Standpoint Bureaucrats School Choice

Author:Matt Salmon

“Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.”

People Humans Soul Care Spirit Nations Responsibility Accepting Tasks Paid Leaving Human Spirit Bureaucrats

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.”

People Needs Our Lives Becoming Servant Fewer Bureaucrats Civil Servants

Author:Michael O'Leary

“When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.”

World Ignorance Superiors Destroyed Experts Sanity Madmen Bureaucrats

Book:The Russia House: A Novel

Source: The Russia House: A Novel

“One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.”

Nations Endure Bureaucracy Bureaucrats

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

“Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.”

“Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.”

Writing Has Beens Jobs Literature Fate Judging Prepared Policemen Bureaucrats

Author:Anton Chekhov

“In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.”

Political Spirit Personality Substance Soviet Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Small Parts Personification

Author:Leon Trotsky

“When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.”

States Care President United United States Veteran Bureaucrats Our Veterans

Author:Marco Rubio

“You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled.”

Ifs Needs Said Use Would Be Language Wonder Tolerance Restaurants Ads Homeless They Said Transient Bureaucrats Bigots

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.”

Reality Form Political Politics Phrases Republic Bureaucrats Oligarchy Courtesans

Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil

Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil

“The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.”

Used Choices Differences Management Administration Bureaucrats Risk Management Rigidity

Author:Robert Heller

“It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.”

Ideas Poor Buried Good Ideas Bureaucracy Relieved Bureaucrats Sponsors

Book:Further Up the Organization

Source: Further Up the Organization

“As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.”

Knows Government Opinion Greater Ego Odds Never Change Bureaucrats

Author:Richard Linklater

“...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.”

Want Jobs Heard Republican Democrat Definitions Bureaucrats

Author:Alben W. Barkley

“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.”

“Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit”

Moments Body Certain Causes Limits Increase Supposed To Be Chemicals Suitable Bureaucrats Pox

Book:Impact: essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization

Source: Impact: essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization

“The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.”

Today Order Hell Modern Independence Scare Declaration Declaration Of Independence Bureaucrats There Comes A Time

Author:Karl Hess

“Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.”

Mean Might Sea Circumstances Average Extremes Statistics Engineers Unpredictable Succession Bureaucrats

Author:Frank Schatzing

“I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.”

Should Believe Use Care America Should Have Don't Believe Access Employers Bureaucrats Contraceptives

Author:Mitt Romney

“Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.”

Mean Past Political Decision Economy Information Discipline Politician Manage Marketplace Bureaucrats Uninformed Miscalculations Political Decisions Information Knowledge

Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.”

“Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale.”

Ifs May Children Technology Alive Willing Grandchildren Grandma Medication Bureaucrats

Author:Thomas Sowell

“All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.”

Government Consumers Operations Bureaucrats

Author:Murray Rothbard

“When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.”

Government Jobs Process Economic Politician Activity Projects Investing Objectives Consumers Productive Private Sector Bureaucrats

Author:Sheldon Richman

“Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.”

Littles Today Law Groups Crazy Particular Politician Various Secure Provision Bureaucrats Advocacy Clauses Quilts

Author:Joel Miller

“Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.”

People Want Care Social Security Politician Spending Disaster Lust Health Care Recipes Social Security Medicare Bureaucrats Liability Faceless Spending Other People's Money

Author:Ed Crane

“The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.”

Ifs Body Virtue Duty Innovation Aim Bounds Improvement Superiors Regulation Obedient Bureaucrats Rules And Regulations

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.”

Use Government Common Groups Politician Common Good Bureaucrats Advocacy

Author:Joel Miller

“Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!”

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