The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
Daniel WebsterTags: evil goodness government
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming change. As soon as scepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.
Stefan MolyneuxTags: government
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
John AbramsTags: government
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John AdamsTags: liberty government
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: liberty government
No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Rush LimbaughTags: government economy taxes prosperity taxing
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas JeffersonTags: government policy
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas JeffersonTags: politics freedom government
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald ReaganTags: politics political-philosophy government scope-of-government
It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back defiantly at a policeman — and when that policeman senses a sudden refusal to accept his defining gaze — as the imperceptible moment in which rebellion is born. "All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people," Kapuscinski writes. "They should begin with a psychological chapter — one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid. This unusual process — sometimes accomplished in an instant, like a shock — demands to be illustrated. Man gets rid of fear and feel free. Without that, there would be no revolution.
Gloria SteinemTags: revolution government
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