I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something… — Raymond Kethledge Copy Share Image
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible… — John Burns Copy Share Image
“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“Though the man of action, the politician, may sometimes pay no attention to the results of this examination, the man of thought… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Ethnocentrism, xenophobia and nationalism are these days rife in many parts of the world. Government repression of unpopular views is still widespread.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it.… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect.… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“The systemic rot is so severe in the police that the government should replace it with something that actually works for the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more… — Nicky Jam Copy Share Image
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, "if you find yourself stuck in politics, the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I have the view that if I am no longer a president, I am determined to become a sage in the sense… — Suharto Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“Any cryptocurrency can be used for one thing and one only: gaining access to the Blockchain Platform. The power and capabilities of… — Chris Lambert Copy Share Image