Al Meyerhoff Quotes, Children Quotes, Government Quotes

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

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[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

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We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Government Quotes , Hands Quotes

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

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Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

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In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

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The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

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