#government

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#either #fairly #force #good #government

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#endeavors #everybody #everybody else #expense #fiction

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. ↗

— Brad Henry

#fundamental #government #people #protect

When I came to Congress, I came to bring what I thought was a real-world business perspective to government because, in the business world, I spent over 20 years in the high-tech industry, but it certainly was not unique. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#bring #business #business world #came #certainly

Government is not show business. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#government #show #show business

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#every time #government #grows #lose #more

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. ↗

— William Beveridge

#common man #glory #government #happiness #man

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard. ↗

— John Bolton

#government #hard #libertarian #maybe #philosophy

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. ↗