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  Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Legal
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  You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

  Ronald Reagan

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  Tags in Government, Little

• A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

  George Grenville

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  Tags in Government, Dignity
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  The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Capitalism, Government, Revolution

• As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government.

  James Hansen

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  Tags in Employee, Government
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  The corporations don’t have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

  Jim Hightower

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  Tags in Government

• The illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

  Evan Meekins

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  Tags in Government
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  When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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  Tags in Government, Oppression, Read, Matter

• The thing which amazes me is that I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any government – there’s always corruption. It’s bad when it’s more than fifteen percent.

  Michel Brunet

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  Tags in Government, Corruption

• Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the Government that he is like the town tart who has finally married the mayor.

  Beverley Baxter

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  Tags in Government
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  Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Ignorance, Government
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  We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Topics in Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Government, Great
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  The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government, Legalized
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  The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government, Patriot
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  Religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Great, Government

• I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won’t believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

  William Hague

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  Tags in Parties, Government

• In American politics, ‘Europe’ is usually a code word for ‘big government.’

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Europe, Government
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  Government will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – their own population.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Enemy, Technology

  Tags in Government, Primary, Combat
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  It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

  Ansel Adams

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Government, Horrifying, Environmental, Fight
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  Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Education, Politics

  Tags in Government, School, Understanding