Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
Government must continue to live within its means.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.