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Government Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
- I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord…
- Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't…
- Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician…
- What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
- Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.
- One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding…
- And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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