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«One does not fight corruption by fighting corruption.»
«No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.»
Author: J. Michael Straczynski
(Producer)
| About:
Army,
Dictators,
Freedom,
Government,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
Armed force, armed forces, armies, dictator, governments, imprisoned, invader, Invaders, population, tyrants
«Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Effort,
Government,
Mankind,
Nature,
Pain,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
confirm, demonstrate, pain and pleasure, sovereign, subjection, throw off
«No government could survive without champagne. In the throat of our diplomatic people [it] is like oil in the wheels of an engine.»
«Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it.»
«Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
fairest, forms of government, hereditary, hereditary monarchy, monarchies, monarchy, prevailed, ridicule, scope, The monarchy, various
«My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Experience,
Government
| Keywords:
beautifully, controversial, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating
«No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
adherence, blessings, firm, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, frugality, fundamental, fundamental principle, moderation, preserved, recurrence, recurrences, temperance
«Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Bureaucracy,
Government
| Keywords:
gullible, programs, references
«[There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Corruption,
Government,
Lies
| Keywords:
false statement, FBI, government officials, interfering, statements
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