Quotes
Quotes about Men
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.
God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally. (US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuit against Al Franken's book).
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and undernourishment.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in governmentâhe promised Dad he'd go straight.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.
