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“It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
Quote by -Mark Twain
“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions — and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“What is called “planning” in political rhetoric is the government’s suppression of other people’s plans by superimposing on them a collective plan, created by third parties, armed with the power of government and exempted from paying the costs that these collective plans impose on others.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“President Obama keeps telling us that he is “creating jobs.” But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for jobs. You are only counted as unemployed if you are still looking for a job.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Nowhere in the world do you find this evenness that people use as a norm. And I find it fascinating that they will hold up as a norm something that has never been seen on this planet, and regard as an anomaly something that is seen in country after country.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Free-loading at emergency rooms—mandated by government—makes being uninsured a viable option.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
Quote by -Ulrich Beck
The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
Quote by -Vivienne Westwood
“[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck
“Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“the countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“While Arab governments and Palestinian leaders were willing to participate in a new and more reasonable UN peace initiative in 1948, the Israelis assassinated the UN peace mediator, Count Bernadotte, and rejected the suggestion of the Palestine Conciliation Commission (PCC), a UN body, to reopen negotiations. This intransigent view would continue; Avi Shlaim has shown in The Iron Wall that, contrary to the myth that the Palestinians never missed an opportunity to miss peace, it was Israel that constantly rejected the peace offers that were on the table.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“From Ferguson to Athens, via Mexico, it is clear that many governments are reproducing the tools that Israel uses to repress and oppress the Palestinians. The replication of those same tactics, methods, and often weapons serves as proof that the Palestinians are now used as guinea pigs for experimentation.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
Quote by -Abraham Lincoln
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
Quote by -Bob Brown
“Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the general progress of the human mind.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.”
Quote by -Socrates
“My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher
“I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher
“The defence budget is one of the very few elements of public expenditure that can truly be described as essential. This point was well-made by a robust Labour Defence Minister, Denis (Now Lord) Healey, many years ago: ‘Once we have cut expenditure to the extent where our security is imperiled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders.’”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher