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“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.”
“If you look at how the federal government spends our money, its an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.”
“When there is Personal and Collective Responsibility in a society, the government cannot but be responsible. That is why it is obvious that a nation deserves the leaders they get, because the natio...”
“As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection of his Almighty arm. I fear that Christians in this cou...”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise ...”
“No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.”
“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be super...”
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
“Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.”
“It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)”
“Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)”
“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.”
“Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way-- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do t...”
“History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of t...”
“Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.”
“A true leader is a servant.”
“Does the flat tax work?...The flat tax works in a country that is a former Communist state, with no investment capital, and low wage rates, which needs to build a capitalist economy from a base of ...”
“The idea that there is are all these people who are going to make all these great and wise decisions with guns. Because you know all the people who can make the best decisions in the world always w...”
“... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”
“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.”
