In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. - Woodrow Wilson
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is. - Woodrow Wilson
I like the dreams of [...]
On a humourous note, my hockey-crazed boys’ favourite hockey song at the moment is The Zambonis’ Hockey Monkey. It’s a catchy tune and the video does make you laugh (well, maybe not as much as my boys.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1dPIfra9DY
1. Law is a necessary evil.
2. Pass as few laws as possible, consistent with the demands of justice and the maintenance of order.
3. Where custom is sufficient, there is no need for law.
4. Do not pass laws that cannot, or will not, be enforced, for such breed contempt for both the law [...]
Would it not be simpler / If the Government / Dissolved the people / And elected another? - Bertolt Brecht
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions [...]
Power is not alluring to pure minds. - Thomas Jefferson
I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. - Thomas Jefferson
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. - Thomas Jefferson
The two enemies of the [...]
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people. - John Adams
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. - John Adams
Public business must always [...]
The following amusing story
can be found in the publication
By George Treasury.
A guy is driving around the back woods of northern Ontario and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: ‘Talking Dog For Sale.’ He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in [...]
Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s problems. - Marshall McLuhan
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes. - Tommy Douglas
The disconnect between Canadians and those who govern on their behalf is deep, wide, and growing. At a [...]
Did the bags full of money the government threw around to help us from the world’s economic collapse last year help us? Did big government manage us through dire straits?
A new study by The Fraser Institute suggests not. Here’s the lead from today’s CanWest news story:
Canada’s economic fortunes have seen a dramatic turnaround [...]
When considering the spot Canadians are in with out-of-control government spending, political columnist Angelo Persichilli has written a great article in today’s Toronto Star.
It’s politics as usual as deficits mount up
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/782554–persichilli-it-s-politics-as-usual-as-deficits-mount-up
He writes:
“You want to cross a wide, deep river but keep going up and down the shore looking for a bridge that [...]