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“The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.”

Want Government Choices Consequence

Author:Johann Lamont

“The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.”

Government Economic Crime Serious Mets Tough Consequence International Sanctions Militia Economic Sanctions

Author:Allyson Schwartz

“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.”

“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.”

States Moments Seems Government Given Nations Causes Interest United Opinion Enemy Break United States Society Consequence Direct Weak Defense Insignificant Trifles Weak Points

Author:James F. Cooper

“If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.”

Ifs Government Might Economy Consequence Inaction Doldrums

Book:The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

Source: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

“Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.”

People Government Order Pay Baby Consequence Murder Betray Horrific

Author:Randall Terry

“In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.”

Trying Humans Government Policy Consequence Government Policy

Author:Laura Poitras

“Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.”

Government Consequence Intervention Marketplace Unintended Consequences Government Intervention

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.”

Should Government Particular Ambition Consequence Sacred Competitors Hereditary

Author:Jonathan Swift

“How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.”

Government Political Party Poverty Mass Illusion Consequence Program Responsible Welfare Convince Someday Political Parties Notorious Alleviate

Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You