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“There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had...”
“In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.”
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.”
“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Iru...”
“By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.”
“Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.”
“I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones,...”
“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate mur”
“But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may fo...”
“Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.”
“Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if ...”
“Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.”
“The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means its giving way to something else.”
“Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.”
“In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And we must...”
“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right I think the important question is between the industrial society and the earth-based society. And I say that beca...”
