5,272 Quotes About Government
- Author Ayn Rand
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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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- Author Ayn Rand
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Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.
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- Author Sol Luckman
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waffle: (n.) breakfast of politicians.
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- Author Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
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- Author Sol Luckman
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census: (n.) being counted so we can be discounted.
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- Author Jeffrey Tucker
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Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion.
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- Author Steven Magee
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I would not venture into government buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Author Bastiat
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Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.
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- Author Ludwig von Mises
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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