Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Government Quotes

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

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Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

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Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Government Quotes

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.

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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

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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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Government should do a few things, and do them right

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Good government is no substitute for self-government.

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

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