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Government Quotes by Edward Abbey
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
- All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
- As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
- Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If…
- A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
- Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
- Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
- I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
- No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
- The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
- War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
- In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies…
- Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We…
- Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
- Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
- The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country,…
- All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
- When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among…
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
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