Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 1389 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.~ Bertolt Brecht The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.~ Justice William J. Brennan If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.~ Justice William J. Brennan There is no such thing as a false idea.~ Justice William J. Brennan Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.~ Reuven Brenner Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.~ Robert Briffault I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.~ Ashleigh Brilliant Anybody that wants the Presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.~ David Broder But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.~ Yaron Brook Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.~ Heywood Hale Broun Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken. ~ Harry Browne I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.~ Harry Browne The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’~ Harry Browne You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.~ Harry Browne A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second.~ Harry Browne The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.~ Harry Browne Government is a parasite—a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others’ lives won’t give up and start minding their own business.~ Harry Browne A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry Browne If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within 5 years men would be having abortions!~ Harry Browne The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.~ Harry Browne Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print