Quotes tagged with 'government'

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
—George Orwell freedom government

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
—George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty-Four government

My country is wherever liberty lives.
—Thomas Paine freedom government

When you subsidize something, you get more of it.
—Ron Paul government

Speak up, speak often and don't worry about those that at this point can not understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.
—Ron Paul government

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries
—Rand Paul economics government

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place.
—Ron Paul government life

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
—Ron Paul economics government

We don't have freedom of speech so we can talk about the weather. We have freedom of speech so we can say very controversial things.
—Ron Paul freedom government

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.
—Turkish Proverb government

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.
—Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged, 1957 government life

We could say that the government spends money like drunken sailors. But that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
—Ronald Reagan government sailing

We don't have inflation because we are living too well, we have it because the government is living too well.
—Ronald Reagan economics government

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
—Ronald Reagan government

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
—Maximilien Robespierre government

You don't pay taxes, they take taxes.
—Chris Rock government

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
—Adrian Rogers government

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
—Adrian Rogers government

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, is about the end of any nation.
—Adrian Rogers government

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear–mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement.
—Larken Rose freedom government