One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
“Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed mixing and mingling with the Tasmanian community and that's, if you like, the bread and butter of politics. And… — Eric Abetz Copy Share Image
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Government surveillance, with its invasive reach into the private lives of citizens, is an egregious violation of the principles that underpin a… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We are attempting to build, within our movement, non-exploitative ways of relating to one another based on trust and concern rather than… — Nancy Ferro Copy Share Image
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
And as Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we… — Dave Berry Copy Share Image
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think it's important to understand that a cartoonist is not drawing for favourable reviews from politicians. What we're trying to do… — Terry Mosher Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“if the power of government rests on the widespread acceptance of false indeed absurd and foolish ideas, then the only genuine protection… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Constitution is brilliant for accountability; for posing factions against each other, to fight amongst themselves in government, which protects our liberty.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm a committed Republican. I believe very strongly in individual liberty. I tend not to think much in terms of group politics.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“If my targets seem to skew “left,” it is for a reason. The left makes huge claims about government and its capabilities.… — James O'Keefe Copy Share Image
“A deep-seated ambivalence has always characterized the official response to the political prisoner. Charged and tried for the criminal act, his guilt… — Joy James Copy Share Image
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for… — George Will Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“My mother wasn’t much into politics, but I’m sure she would have assumed that fifty years later, the minimum wage would be… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
