{"id":5329,"date":"2014-08-22T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:00:05","slug":"libertarian-views-on-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5329","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian views on government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many libertarian-minded people, Ronald Reagan\u2019s observations on government probably comes closest to their perceptions of \u201cgovernment.\u201d\u00a0 Former U.S. President Reagan stated:\u00a0<em> \u201cI believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for liberals\u2026 The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are a dozen quotes, from some of history\u2019s great thinkers, that best describe the biases libertarians hold against big government &#8211; well, government in general:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All government is an ugly necessity. &#8211; G. K. Chesterton<\/li>\n<li>That government is best which governs least. \u2013 Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<li>In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. &#8211; George Washington<\/li>\n<li>Government can&#8217;t give us anything without depriving us of something else. &#8211; Henry Hazlitt<\/li>\n<li>You can\u2019t give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad &#8211; in fact, to do anything it wants. &#8211; Henry Browne<\/li>\n<li>The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. &#8211; Milton Friedman<\/li>\n<li>Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<li>Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. &#8211; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/li>\n<li>Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. &#8211; Frederic Bastiat<\/li>\n<li>For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. &#8211; Jonathan Swift<\/li>\n<li>Man is not free unless government is limited. &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many libertarian-minded people, Ronald Reagan\u2019s observations on government probably comes closest to their perceptions of \u201cgovernment.\u201d\u00a0 Former U.S. President Reagan stated:\u00a0 \u201cI believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for liberals\u2026 The basis of conservatism is a desire&#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":[52,30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329"}],"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=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}