An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
(Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Visigoth and Gaul, politics and plague. She fought on, struggling in tandem with antiquated interpretations and outmoded explanations, wondering at the senselessness… — Douglas Sterling Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
“It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics.… — Carola Giedion-Welcker Copy Share Image
“Because society makes its own governmental shapes; when a governing power wants to control society from the top-down, society will assess this… — Herbert Tombeur Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black,… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians,… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, beyond diplomatic manipulation and economic gain, a system of ubiquitous spying allows the United States to maintain its grip on the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“My faith is with technology and with psychedelics. Politics aren't going to take us much further. We're awakening as a planet to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I am always on duty, even when I am at party events or on vacation. I don't complain about it, on the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Of course, in the states, about half the states elect their judges, and that's an even more direct involvement with politics. But… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the product of good government. ‘Vices belong less to man, than to man badly governed.’ The political process, and the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State.… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
“Gerber, who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman court decisions, points to examples of Ottoman muftis (official jurists) who, despite being paid by… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs. The duty of government is to help them do it.… — Robert Crichton Copy Share Image
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
I kept thinking, I'm not going to do political journalism, because there's no way to keep my principles and be a political… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“Today, they are commonplace, and rarely controversial, but Americans across the political spectrum once regarded the whole idea of private foundations with… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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