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«A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Government,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
country, defend, His country, patriot, ready, The Patriot
«A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter»
Author: George Grenville
(Politician)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
conciliate, conciliating, contemptible, enforce, former, latter, odious, temper
«A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.»
Author: George Grenville
(Politician)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
conciliate, conciliating, enforce
«A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top»
«By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
Government,
Inflation
| Keywords:
confiscate, continuing, inflation, secretly, unobserved
«But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.»
Author: Lysander Spooner
| About:
Constitution,
Government
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, powerless, unfit, unfits, unfitted, unfitting
«A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Right
| Keywords:
disarmed, disarming, disarms, holds, legal, legally, legal right, monopolies, Monopoly, physical, physical force, rights, the threat of, threat, victims
«A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
depend, depend on, Paul, Paul A, Paul I, pay, peter, peter out, robs, support
«Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Religion
| Keywords:
Calvin, copied, detestable, erecting, existed, modeled, Old Testament, succeeded, testament, theocracy
«But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Christianity,
Church,
Government
| Keywords:
aggrandize, aggrandizing, departed, elapsed, engine, enslaving, Jewish, Jewish religion, perverted, professed, professing, reformer, servants
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