One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things. . public transport arrangements we have. . all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the. . . liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
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?
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices. We are all consumers and should all be producers. This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.
You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.
government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to explain these societal challenges in some ways provided the fuel that led to the Occupy Movement a few years later. And, while Occupy was a somewhat transitory phenomenon, many of the activist groups that emerged during this period are still out there, and still working on reshaping the political debate around taxes, around welfare, around government assistance to the poor, around debt relief for students, and so on.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives
