Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we...

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.” [Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a...

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

The administrative cost for maintaining government operation in China had increased by 87 times in a period of 25 years from 1978 to 2003, while the governments’ financial revenues only rose by 21 times during...

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise of top-heavy bureaucracies. Today, these institutions have an opportunity to fundamentally alter the...

The opposition proposal did not receive a positive response from the government. This means the government is not sincere about political reforms.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go...

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury,...

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

This is a very important group that works toward insuring preparedness and working with local governments on preparedness-related issues.

I believe that we will succeed in forming the national unity government the people are waiting for.

Government has decided to set up 90 apni mandis at a cost of Rs 13.50 crore. It would be ensured that every assembly constituency gets one mandi,

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.

They won’t be free to choose the people they would necessarily want in their government … There will be a lot of horse-trading going on.

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men… and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious...

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance.

I collect collectivisms. I’ve already got socialism and communism, and all I need is fascism to complete the set. I’m looking to trade my dusty democracy, but Uncle Sam isn’t interested in a deal at...

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes… the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and...

We do have to be vigilant and to demonstrate that we know the difficulties that that government is causing for its neighbors. Those relationships are deeply concerning to us and to me. And we are...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and...

This will put us in a strong position to form a government in the city.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Really there hasn’t been any differences of opinion between the Iraqi government and U.S. Embassy at all,

Newt Gingrich, buddy, the people of the United States don’t like you. And the only reason the rest of the world doesn’t despise you is because they don’t know you. Thankfully you won’t have to...

We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains...

Roberts wants to restrict the role of government. His early writings … have really raised question about what he will perceive as the appropriate role for strong centralized government. You will see more questions about...

That will prop up the corrupted regime. We are rewarding and we are encouraging the government for what they did over the past 20 years.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

I don’t see any excuse for the federal government to wait, because the provincial government is certainly treating this document as a precursor to legislation.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to...

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn’t that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

This regime will never agree to form a government of national unity to govern a transition. All we can do is bring our supporters together and go into the streets.

The government has only made cosmetic changes to its vague and ambiguous proposal. Their plan remains unprecedented, excessive, and harmful. The exercise of the past few days does not substitute in any way for a...

People see something on TV they don’t like, and some activists yell from the rooftops calling for more government intervention, but that’s not what people want. The vast majority of the people don’t want the...

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

While millions of consumers are turning to natural medicines for relief, many of them have no idea that the government doesn’t require that they be tested for how safe they are or how well they...

Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the...

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who...

I feel the federal government can do a better job than the state.

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there...

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

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.

This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political volatility we are living through.

We wish to warn the Chinese government and its oil companies to steer well clear of the Niger Delta. Chinese citizens found in oil installations will be treated as thieves. The Chinese government by investing...

I tell you, he’s President George Bush, not King George Bush. This is not the system of government we have and that we fought for.

I want this sewage situation resolved. My friend died. How many more people are going to die before government gets their act together?