Archive for the ‘Government’ Category

Thomas Paine on Government

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

That government is best which governs least.

- Thomas Paine

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Wilhelm Reich on Government

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

- Wilhelm Reich

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Cullen Hightower on Government

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

- Cullen Hightower

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Government

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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James Madison on Government

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

- James Madison

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Denis Diderot on Government

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

- Denis Diderot

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Sydney J. Harris on Government

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

- Sydney J. Harris

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Thomas Paine on Government

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

- Thomas Paine

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Louis D. Brandeis on Government

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

- Louis D. Brandeis

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Cullen Hightower on Government

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.

- Cullen Hightower