Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If read more

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should read more

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

England is the mother of parliaments.

England is the mother of parliaments.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by read more

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.

I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years
ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years
ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.