Citizens Quotes - Page 19

• Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Giving, Receiving, Commodity

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

  Richard Ebeling

  Government, Liberty, Regulation

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• When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.

  John Pugsley

  Jobs, Government, Subsidies

  John Pugsley (2007). “The Chairman's Corner: Essays on Liberty from the Sovereign Individual”, p.204, The Sovereign Society

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• The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Cutting, Cities

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• Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

  John Pugsley

  Government, Stealing, Subterfuge

  John Pugsley (2007). “The Chairman's Corner: Essays on Liberty from the Sovereign Individual”, p.166, The Sovereign Society

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• It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Ideas, People

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• By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left society moves, the more there is government control over its citizens' lives. It is astonishing that this obvious fact is not universally acknowledged and that the Left has somehow successfully portrayed itself as preoccupied with personal liberty.

  Dennis Prager

  Moving, Government, People

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• Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

  Michael Sandel

  Perfect, Democracy, Doe

  Michael J. Sandel (2012). “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”, p.225, Macmillan

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• Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hero, Men, Past

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.11, Routledge

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• The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Order, Law, Justice

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

  James Cook

  Government, Robbing, Crisis

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• If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.

  James Bovard

  Government, Wish, Important

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• It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Government, People, Trying

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• Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Korea, Cuba, Planning

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• O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

  Horace

  Practice, Firsts, Wealth

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• Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government job, essential to national security. I AM A CITIZEN. Like the Supreme Court judges, my job is for life, and the well-being of my country depends on me. It seems fair to think that I should be held accountable for my record in the same way I expect accountability from those who seek elected office. I would like to be able to say that I can stand on my record and am proud of it.

  Robert Fulghum

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

  Bill Gates

  Information, Sophisticated, Should

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Passion, Character

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• The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.

  Samuel Gompers

  Country, People, World

  Samuel Gompers, Stuart Bruce Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, Marla J. Hughes, Mary C. Jeske (1991). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: A national labor movement takes shape, 1895-98”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Months, Events, World

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• Never discount a country by their size or resources. What may not be useful to yours, could be greatly beneficial to other lands in need. Everything exists with a purpose. True wealth is what cannot be seen. While one country can have a huge powerful military, another land may lack the budget and manpower to compete with it -- but be filled with happy citizens.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Powerful, Military

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• The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.

  Guy P. Harrison

  Dark, Goal, Soul

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• More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Acting

  "Democracy should be exercised regularly, on foot" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2006.

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• Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

  William Styron

  Islands, Class, Literature

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• We must have a government which is not only a guarantor of public order and safety and which preserves the right of White citizens to keep and to bear arms, which is the ancient hallmark of a truly free people, but we must have government which maintains an eternal vigilance against the enemies, both internal and external, of a White America.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Order, White, America

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