Government Quotes
Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.
...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government.
It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.
Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.
I disagreed with the conduct of the war, with bombing civilians, categorizing everyone as the enemy or simply as armed men, with the racism and the disregard for those people.
In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.
I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.
Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.
There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.
When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.
An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.
You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.
Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.
The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.
You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?
Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.
It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.
Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?
Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...
Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.
Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?
Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.
Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socia
I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".
Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.
It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)
