Governments
GOVERNMENTS:
In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich.
GOVERNMENTS:
In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisefor the poor and socialism for the rich.
GOVERNMENTS:
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
GOVERNMENTS:
Government run by organized money is more fearful than government run by organized mobs.
GOVERNMENTS:
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
GOVERNMENTS:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
GOVERNMENTS:
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
GOVERNMENTS:
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
GOVERNMENTS:
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
GOVERNMENTS:
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it.
GOVERNMENTS:
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
GOVERNMENTS:
It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse.
GOVERNMENTS:
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
GOVERNMENTS:
In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisfor the poor and socialism for the rich.
GOVERNMENTS:
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
GOVERNMENTS:
We are teaching the world the great truth that governments do better without kings and nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of government.
GOVERNMENTS:
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
GOVERNMENTS:
A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
GOVERNMENTS:
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
GOVERNMENTS:
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convince Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . no longer exist.