{"id":1339,"date":"2018-03-26T14:32:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T18:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2018-04-09T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:56:11","slug":"quotes-on-politics-democracy-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on Politics, Democracy, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n<ul>\n<li>What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not good at much else. &#8211; Tom Clancy<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want. &#8211; Harry Browne<\/li>\n<li>Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you. \u2013 Harry Browne<\/li>\n<li>The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: &#8216;I, the State, am the people&#8217;. &#8211; Friedrich Nietzsche<\/li>\n<li>An oppressive government is much worse than a man-eating tiger. &#8211; Confucious<\/li>\n<li>It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. &#8211; John Adams<\/li>\n<li>If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.\u00a0&#8211; Thomas Jefferson<\/li>\n<li>A moderate is\u00a0 either someone who has no moral code\u00a0 of\u00a0 his own, or if he\u00a0 does, then he&#8217;s\u00a0 someone who\u00a0 doesn&#8217;t have the\u00a0 guts to take sides between good and evil. &#8211; Rick Gaber<\/li>\n<li>Give a good man great powers and crooks grab his job. &#8211; Rick Gaber<\/li>\n<li>Overload the police with victimless crimes and other minutiae and eventually only creeps and bullies remain cops. &#8211; Rick Gaber<\/li>\n<li>Power draws the corrupted; absolute power would draw the absolutely corrupted. \u2013 Colin Barth<\/li>\n<li>The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be. &#8211; Lao-tzu<\/li>\n<li>Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free&#8230;.The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. &#8211; Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n<li>Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. &#8211; Frederic Bastiat<\/li>\n<li>There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. &#8211; Demosthenes: Philippic 2, sect. 24<\/li>\n<li>People constantly speak of\u00a0 &#8216;the government&#8217; doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. &#8211; H.L. Mencken<\/li>\n<li>Crime does not pay \u2026 as well as politics. \u2013 Alfred E. Newman<\/li>\n<li>Politics is a means of preventing people from taking part in what properly concerns them. &#8211; Paul Valery<\/li>\n<li>When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies. &#8211; Ron Paul<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;somebody has to take governments&#8217; place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it. \u2013 David Rockefeller<\/li>\n<li>Government is big business, with the face of democracy. \u2013 Jim West<\/li>\n<li>Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America&#8217;s problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God. \u2013 Norman Vincent Peale<\/li>\n<li>Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what they will have for lunch. \u2013 Anonymous<\/li>\n<li>Democracy is defended in 3 stages.\u00a0 Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. &#8211; Ambrose Bierce<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re [United States] not a democracy. It&#8217;s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we&#8217;re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy. &#8211; Ramsey Clark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not good at much else. &#8211; Tom Clancy It&#8217;s important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want. &#8211; Harry Browne Give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9588,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}