State Role Quotes

Government is a necessary evil

Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.

All of government is just a device to protect man so that he may earn his bread in the sweat of his labor.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

The state is there to respect the freedom of each citizen to believe in what he or she wants to believe in.

Government has no other end but the preservation of property.

If Mohammed bin Salman wants to deal properly with corruption, he must preserve two elements vital to the Saudi economy: trust in the state and the role of national companies.

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

I believe in the state as a power for good.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state?

Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state