Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 396 Corruption quotesCorruption QuotesCorruption Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another… All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.~ Emma Goldman A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.~ Barry Goldwater Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.~ Walter Goodman Regulation -- which is based on force and fear -- undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place funds with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.~ Alan Greenspan No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.~ G. Edward Griffin Inflation has now been institutionalized at a fairly constant 5% per year. This has been determined to be the optimum level for generating the most revenue without causing public alarm. A 5% devaluation applies, not only to the money earned this year, but to all that is left over from previous years. At the end of the first year, a dollar is worth 95 cents. At the end of the second year, the 95 cents is reduced again by 5%, leaving its worth at 90 cents, and so on. By the time a person has worked 20 years, the government will have confiscated 64% of every dollar he saved over those years. By the time he has worked 45 years, the hidden tax will be 90%. The government will take virtually everything a person saves over a lifetime.~ G. Edward Griffin In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other.~ Alexander Hamilton A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.~ Alexander Hamilton [A] limited Constitution ... can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing ... To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.~ Alexander Hamilton The IRS is an extraordinary example of the end justifying the means. The means of this agency is growth. It is interesting that the revenue officers within the IRS refer to taxpayers as 'inventory'. The IRS embodies the political realities of the selfish human desire to dominate others. Thus the end of this gigantic pretense of officialdom is power, pure and simple. The meek may inherit the earth, but they will never receive a promotion in an agency where efficiency is measured by the number of seizures of taxpayers' property and by the number of citizens and businesses driven into bankruptcy.~ George Hansen Only the IRS can attach 100% of a tax debtor's wages and/or property. Only the IRS can invade the privacy of a citizen without court process of any kind. Only the IRS can seize property without a court order. Only the IRS can force a citizen to try his case in a special court governed by the IRS. Only the IRS can compel the production of documents, records, and other materials without a court case being in existence. Only the IRS can with impunity publish the details of a citizens debt. Only the IRS can legally, without a court order, subject citizens to electronic surveillance. Only the IRS can force waiver of statute of limitations and other citizen's rights through the threat of Arbitrary assesment. Only the IRS uses extralegal coercion. Threats to witnesses to examine their taxes regularly produces whatever evidence the IRS dictates. Only the IRS is free to violate a written agreement with a citizen. Only the IRS uses reprisals against citizen and public officials alike. Only the IRS can take property on the basis of conjecture. Only the IRS is free to maintain lists of citizen guilty of no crime for the purpose of harassing and monitoring them. Only the IRS envelops all citizens. Only the IRS publicly admits that it's purpose is to instill fear in the citizenry as a technique of performing it's function.~ George V. Hansen Understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices.~ William Henry Harrison The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.~ William Henry Harrison From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.~ Friedrich August von Hayek I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von Hayek There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies.~ Samuel P. Hays Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.~ Hearst newspapers nationwide Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print