I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers.… — Jovan Adepo Copy Share Image
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
“What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20, 2017,… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the… — Laura Kuenssberg Copy Share Image
“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
“Little had changed after independence. Jomo Kenyatta’s face hung in a framed portrait in every shop where Queen Elizabeth’s had been. Some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural that our politicians… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“America operates under the notion of equality before the law. Basic fairness is an article of faith. We may not agree on… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“We should by now have learned that politics remains national, even if economics does not: the history of the 20th century offers… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
“A boring machine, would it drill holes—or put you to sleep? The two-party political system, that’s a boring machine, though voters are… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“After all of this, I was beginning to feel that the way people got news shouldn’t be in the hands of the… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I went to squat with a bunch of friends - creative, intelligent, political people. We got involved in a community project funded… — Jimmy Somerville Copy Share Image
“What was critical to my father was that we not "go into government". His father and mother had both worked in the… — Patrick J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
I guess as I get older, I'm kind of getting drawn to the things that I really love the most, which is… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
To claim qualified immunity under the Reforming Qualified Immunity Act, a government employee such as a police officer would have to prove… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
