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Government Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Love your country, but never trust its government.
- I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no…
- War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's…
- When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see,…
- The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
- Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to…
- Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an…
- There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit…
- Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight…
- Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
- Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work.…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- 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
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida