The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
The essence of good government is trust.
We were poor, but we didn’t know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don’t remember ever being hungry.
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?
In a vast and diverse country like India, a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.
I have said it previously and saying it again… my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion.
It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.
Populism is not a style, it’s a people’s rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country – including our economy, government, media, and environment.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.
Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen’s compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
And you can’t have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can’t be done.
It’s no coincidence that the cities with the highest rates of violence also have the highest rates of unemployment. There are not many opportunities. We have to address that, starting from the government down and the grassroots up.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world’s climate.
Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
Government is essentially immoral.
The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
When times get tough, we get tougher. Failure and government assistance are not an option for us.
Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
By mandating equal pay, the government erases the competitive advantage of those people who are willing to take less pay. In addition, employers are less willing to hire employees who they believe could subject them to increased liability.
Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower.
The Padma Shri came as a very pleasant surprise. I am deeply honoured. I don’t know what I did to deserve it, but I must have done something right to be honoured by our government.
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
Socialism means slavery.
The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law – that form of government is usually temporary.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
The so-called second New Deal of 1935 – including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor – represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.
When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
