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Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.
Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?
The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.
As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.
The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.
Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.
It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week
As a government lawyer, Samuel Alito wrote that he personally believe very strongly the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion.
There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It`s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.
I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.
I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.
If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.
Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.