“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.” IfsMadeEndsGovernmentWantedResultsCreativityCuttingFailingCallingActivityEssentialsAspectScientistWork OutExperimentsInventionMade ItHypothesisBeing AfraidAfraid To FailGreat Inventions Author:Edwin Land
“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.” MeanGovernmentWould BeEconomicPolicyAspectDeterminedCurrency Book:Reflections Source: Reflections
“To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.” PeopleMenWayYearsHas BeensTwoDreamGovernmentWould BeFormIndividualLostNationsRepublicanHundredAspectNew WaysSovereignArbitraryFree ManForms Of GovernmentNew Way Of Life Book:The Greening of America Source: The Greening of America
“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.” IdeasGovernmentLastsValuesLinesEconomicCapitalismAspectBottomCommunismCorporateGoodsEfficiencyBottom LinePublic ServiceSubordinatesAmerican LifeEconomic Power Author:Ellen Willis
“Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life.” GovernmentAmericaPoliticalWealthAspectToolsExpensiveToysPrivate Life Author:Mark Skousen
“Do Americans want the government to micromanage every aspect of our lives? President Ronald Reagan certainly didn't.” WantGovernmentPresidentOur LivesAspectPresident Ronald Reagan Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.” ArtGovernmentStrongRolesSupportUniqueAspectNotionAppropriateVery StrongInfrastructureCivilisedCivilised Society Author:George Brandis