No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Nonsense. I would like to say, quite formally and clearly, that my government would never allow something like this.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the...

When you get the government involved in these things, there’s so much red tape and to cut through the red tape, the days it takes, these people are just going to die needlessly.

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that,...

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children)So what does this movement consist of? Who are the movers and shakers? Well molesters are in it, of course....

They need to stop using government resources to favor one candidate. That is illegal and immoral. Don’t get involved Mr. President, it is not your job.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

[F]reedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that “Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,” as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars...

I used to do it undercover for many years for the government, so I can tell you how simple it is.

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It’s a way of...

tie up three branches of government for the next four months.

Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion–some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring,...

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

Who’d pay more to get less? Only a fool—or a government agency.

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

When are the two parties, the government and the (rebels), going to wake up? They are the parties that can put an end to violence.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

The hidden cost of frowning is the negative impact on the people around you, which results in diminished productivity in the workforce, and lost tax revenue for the city. Thus, frowns should be fined, and...

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These...

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth...

There just is no vision for limited government,

In monarchies, each man’s desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had...

This is a good opportunity for the government to prove that everyone is equal before the law whether they are high-ranking ministers or prominent businessmen.

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, and...

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global...

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming,...

Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?””Yes. They’re prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you...

possible attempt by Belgrade to oust his government.

This government’s budget is barely six months old and it’s already been blown to smithereens, … The government seems to have abandoned all pretence of control on the public purse.

Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created.Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be...

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

That creates a 28-month process for what the federal government said should be a 24-month process.

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Although some government officials and ruling bloc lawmakers remain reluctant toward an early policy shift, there are nearly no objections in the private sector, including the banking industry, the insurance industry and business lobbies.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public...

A young, beautiful mayor’s with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.

Maybe this is one way to move the federal government. It’s a ridiculous way to be addressing the problem to go state by state, receiving threats from the government saying it’s illegal, and yet states...

well, I became a drug addict and I lost my house, family, and my job and all that.” It’s not because you became a drug addict but, because there is a war on drugs which...

I think they are waiting for the new government. The tempo will build up,

One of the issues we are working with the government on, we’re begging them, we need more pathways. It’s the wireless information highway; we need the asphalt for that highway.