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“It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.”
“The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.”
“A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.”
“Not surprisingly, the all-powerful evocation of terrorism is reserved only for those acts that threaten the government-sponsored status quo, but not that perpetrated by the state or corporations ag...”
“Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country thats out of kings.”
“Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it is beneficial to them, but they do not stand by a person at the time ofhisdist...”
“Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of liberty - guarantees wholly unsupported by the realities o...”
“He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically self-reliant off every grid. The energy grid was wasteful and corrupt...”
“Government or an administration isnt really the sum of its parts like people think, because all of those parts are competing for their own interests and pulling in opposite directions at the same...”
“All political meetings are very much alike. Somebody gets up and introduces the speaker of the evening, and then the speaker of the evening says at great length what he thinks of the scandalous man...”
“A government of laws, and not of men”
“Just as the attempts to preserve the power of knights in armor were doomed to fail in the face of gunpowder weapons, so the modern notions of nationalism and citizenship are doomed to be short-circ...”
“States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of n...”
“As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, Life was better since the government came because a man could now eat without looking over his shoulder and could leave his h...”
“People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-day...”
“Green recorded these initial thoughts about government: "Either the people will pay direct taxes, or they will pay none if they know it; and if they don't know when they pay taxes, it is quite time...”
“The authorities? The authorities? I laughed. Why is it people think the authorities are some form of gods with either great justice or great, cunning evil, rather than the same plodding fools they ...”
“The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens.”
“Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrained, lower class men or men without ambition to protect the sufferers cannot be placed on the seat...”
“The Left has made the young gullible and materialist, while the Right has turned them into nihilistic cynics. This paradigm of power and struggle, expressed through endless ego-driven duality games...”
