Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.
The price of loyalty is incompetence.
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime
The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U. S. Treasury. . . and has created out of nothing a. . . debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.
If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.
Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access. '
Do not let the future be held hostage by the past
The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.
The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.
Donald Trump has declared that he's going to divest himself from his companies and that his sons will be separated from the government. But his sons who run the company are regularly attending his meetings with senators, making it clear to everybody, you want access to Trump you pay.
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion. . . .
The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force
Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
The Constitution is a radical document. . . it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.