Assuming Quote by William Godwin

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find…

— Jo Swinson

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of…

— John C. Calhoun

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological…

— Emma Goldman

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

— John Dewey

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

— Ralph Peters

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

— Joe Biden

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

— Thomas Sowell

If something is inconvenient, even if we believe in it, moral suasion, financial incentives, don't do much to move us but social pressure, that's…

— Suman Rai

The government endangers us with our own money.

— James Cook

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold…

— Robert H. Jackson

Everything we do has consequences.

— Dennis Potter

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

— Anthony Albanese