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The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered ...

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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for ma...

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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were alw...

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By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and n...

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John Maynard KeynesThe Economic Consequences of the Peace

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed ...

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The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes ...

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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your windo...

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The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is f...

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The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between t...

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Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong...

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John Ralston SaulThe Unconscious Civilization

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during t...

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John Ralston SaulThe Unconscious Civilization

It seems to us that one of the deepest divisions between the Russians and the Americans or British, ...

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and di...

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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding un...

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To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefor...

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John Stuart MillConsiderations on Representative Government

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their i...

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It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

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So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship wil...

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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the sam...

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John le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in position...

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You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw...

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To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welco...

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The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined fo...

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If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...

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Jonah GoldbergLiberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their r...

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian)The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government...

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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his gove...

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In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and coura...

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A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a ...

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Every nation has the government that it deserves.

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its kno...

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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less...

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The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not ...

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Julian AssangeCypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, vicious...

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The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something el...

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You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about ...

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It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

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If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simpl...

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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like ...

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Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

Government is waging war against the people.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ...

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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeci...

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I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goo...

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So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our govern...

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[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of...

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My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

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Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around ...

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No cop on earth would call his badge a government identification document. Cops don’t work for the g...

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If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of su...

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...

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Yea” might be turned into “Nay” and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied to th...

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The supply of government exceeds the demand.

Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of...

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I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came...

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Folks can’t seem to realize that it isn’t a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man w...

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The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method pos...

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A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand t...

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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to th...

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If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learn...

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Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

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What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

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Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

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It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, becau...

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Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantl...

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The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War...

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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest p...

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The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

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If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

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No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not d...

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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

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A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally...

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Lysander SpoonerNo Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U...

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I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong ...

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But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the ma...

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Mahatma GandhiMind of Mahatma Gandhi

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

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Mahatma GandhiSelected Political Writings

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept auth...

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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black R...

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Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovat...

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You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on governmen...

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That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...

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Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the gov...

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

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Margaret ThatcherThe Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher