Achievement Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.

— Monica Crowley

Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender…

— James Cook

When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action…

— Enoch Powell

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own…

— Amartya Sen

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

— Bernard Berenson

Any government objective should be and only be: not to make life easy for everybody but rather to make their dreams become possible to…

— Anonymous

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though…

— Alexander Hamilton

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and…

— James F. Cooper

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

— William Hazlitt

The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law…

— Edmund Burke