Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
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In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it.… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the nations in which the government fears the people,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have… — Yuri Kochiyama Copy Share Image
Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email, and I have said it would… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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With federal recognition, the Lumbee Tribe would become a full player in Indian country, no longer second class Indians in the eyes… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The federal government gets a lot press, and that's what the media talks about, but your state and local governments, in many… — Kane Copy Share Image
The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
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Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development,… — Ferdinand Lassalle Copy Share Image
We need to stop hoping that our systems will right themselves. We need to actually take the reins of government and fix… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
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I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
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