Government

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  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Anyone who is different today faces harassment, whether it is in the way he dresses, or in the position he takes on important issues. And when the price of being different is a cold fear, with good reason, then freedom as we peddle it in our international publicity releases is gone. If and when it disappears, it won't be stolen by big government, the tax collector, or the Supreme Court. Fascism will be the people's choice. It usually is. We've managed to avoid it so far only because nobody nutty enough to give the people what they want has come along. Yet.
        Mike Royko   Best?
  • The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Science is nothing but perception.
        Plato   Best?
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.
        Joseph Stalin   Best?
  • The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
        Cornelius Tacitus   Best?
  • The wisest men follow their own direction.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
        Sylvia Plath   Best?
  • There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
        Karl Marx   Best?
  • It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.
        Maureen Dowd   Best?
  • ...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
        Sylvia Plath   Best?
  • I'm just trying to get in, it's not like I'm running for Jesus.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
        George Washington   Best?
  • Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
        Unknown   Best?
  • In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
        J. Edgar Hoover   Best?
  • The President can bomb anybody he likes.
        Richard Nixon   Best?
  • Where the people fear the government you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty.
        William Feather   Best?
  • A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
        Bertrand de Jouvenal   Best?
  • Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
        Seneca   Best?
  • If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.
        Billy Connolly   Best?
  • Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
        Daniel Webster   Best?
  • In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Any time the Government officially denies knowledge, it's speaking the truth.
        John Alejandro King   Best?
  • In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
        General Omar Bradley   Best?
  • If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
        Joseph Goebbels   Best?
  • Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
        Edward Abbey   Best?

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