{"id":7717,"date":"2016-01-20T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2016-01-23T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T12:33:42","slug":"12-quips-on-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7717","title":{"rendered":"12 Quips on Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In bracing ourselves for the return of Parliament on Monday, By George Journal has offered up a dozen some remarkable quips. They are great zingers for your inevitable conversations next week&#8230;<\/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>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In bracing ourselves for the return of Parliament on Monday, By George Journal has offered up a dozen some remarkable quips. They are great zingers for your inevitable conversations next week&#8230; All government is an ugly necessity. &#8211; G. K. Chesterton That government is best which governs least. \u2013 Henry David Thoreau In a healthy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717"}],"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=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7718,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}