Top Government Quotes

The police are often as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

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(n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

(n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.

(n.) The right or power of governing; authority.

(n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.

(n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.

(n.) Management of the limbs or body.

(n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do...

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and ta...

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: C-Students from Yale.George W. Bush has gathered around h...

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, 'the plane's hitting,' and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the FBI at...

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

The biggest fear a corporate government has is that the masses will refuse to work.

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pensio...

Statism ends with an eye roll.

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living...

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?