780 quotes found
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to valu...”
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.”
“The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.”
“The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.”
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
“To Trazada's surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. 'Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are ignorant. They are afraid. T...”
“I never bought into the whole second amendment argument as it relates to the 21st century. Originally, it was put into place for the simple reason that our forefathers were fighting or had just fou...”
“How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.”
“The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For whom should the government be? For educated people or few others. Government should be for the poor....”
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
“You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into j...”
“The government is merely a servantmerely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is t...”
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclus...”
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
“The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.”
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
