Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
Category: government
Politics and government
Politics doesn’t work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we’ve got the poor people in.
If only they never did anything
Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don’t hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
The problem of governments
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Decent men needed
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Government efficiency
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor-saving device, which enables ten men to do the work of one.
Who is non-essential?
If we have to slog through another shutdown debate, can we at least define our terms? I.E.: ‘Non-essential government employee’ … is redundant.
The best argument for small government
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
The misfortune of government
It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
Don’t hand over your powers
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.