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“The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.”

Want States Able Communication Authority Communicate Surveillance Surveillance State

Author:Barry Eisler

“Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.”

States Support Economic Authority West Palestinian Fledglings

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

“It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.”

“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”

Source: The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892

“The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.”

May Made States Lasts Party Authority Capacity Sufficient Sovereign Resorts Magnitude Compact Tribunals Nullification

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.”

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Author:Walter M. Miller, Jr.

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”

Ifs Needs Should Made Ends States Government School Support Authority Universal Aids Permanent Provision Suffrage State Government Universal Suffrage Universal Education

Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.”

States Lying Easy Church Authority Roots Presses Worried Officials Censorship Printing Copyright Printing Press Scribes

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”

“When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.”

Wells States Government Justice Authority Tyranny Locals Branches Reviews Federal Government Judicial Local Government Rubrics Judicial Review

Author:Mark Levin

“. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.”

“To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.”

Ideas States Reason Law Justice Cases Sacrifice Ought Authority Ordinary Selling All Time Goods Farmers Urgent Utility Hinder

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.”

Ifs States Would Be Individual Grows Interest Half Generations Integrity Authority Slave Population Contact Preserves Other Half Vested Interests Usury

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.”

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Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.”

Giving States Political Wish Greater Authority Highest Police Instruments Criminals Officials Discretion Non Political

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.”

Ifs Firsts Two States Happens Gone Week Authority Doctors Sick Reports Sickness Associates Two Weeks

Author:Marion Nestle

“And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .”

States Use Force United United States Military Authority Congress Granted Als September Al Qaeda Military Force

Author:George W. Bush

“The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.”

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Author:Alexander Hamilton

“The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.”

States Understanding Attitude Authority Reflection Negative Direct Over You

Author:Guy Finley

“If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.”

Ifs States Happens Crime Authority Murder Committed

Author:Cyprian

“That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.”

States Life Is Father Jesus Heaven Christ Lord Our Lives Authority Supreme Passive Father In Heaven Lordship

Author:Keith Green

“God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.”

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Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified at how the present court misapplies what they designed.”

States Would Be Authority Areas Constitution Court Framers

Author:Doug Bandow

“Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.”

Mean States Three Social Materials Offers Authority Independence Institutions Property Loyalty Socialism Liberalism Rivals Private Property Social Institutions

Author:Joseph Sobran

“The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.”

Doe States Individual Protect Authority Command Acknowledge Visible Mutual Spheres Sovereignty

Author:Abraham Kuyper

“We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.”

Doe Art States Social Existence Grace Authority Spheres Sovereignty Grace Of God Bosoms

Book:Lectures on Calvinism

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.”

“There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a compliment, in the sense that what I felt "The Prisoner" was for the '60's, in how the individual triumphs over the state and authority, our show is really about how complacent we have become in our lives, which are scrutinized.”

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Author:Remi Aubuchon

“A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do.”

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Author:John Kasich

“The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.”

Ifs Needs States Use Force Nations Interest Justice Liberty Authority Relation International Cease Anarchy Parliament Use Of Force

Book:Political Ideals

Source: Political Ideals

“To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.”

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Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?”

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Author:John McCain

“READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .”

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Author:Franklin Pierce

“We have no other choice but to go on managing the conflict. We propose a stability plan: We want to strengthen the Palestinian Authority economically and establish mutual industrial zones and help them to develop independent energy capabilities, enabling the Palestinians to live their lives independently and have a future. This is where the European States should invest, not in NGOs that harm Israel.”

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Author:Ayelet Shaked

“By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.”

“The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.”

May States United United States Authority Gold 1930s

Author:James Dale Davidson

“The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.”

States United Leader United States Fronts Willing Authority Transformed Palestinian

Author:Colin Powell

“There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated.”

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Author:Tori Amos

“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other's authority.”

Source: A Manual for Creating Atheists

“There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes. But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the will of a few ... They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?”

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Book:The Adages of Erasmus

Source: The Adages of Erasmus

“The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.”

World Needs Doe States Facts Authority Illusion Claims Soviet Camouflage

Author:Leon Trotsky

“The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.”

“The only years [of Donald Trump's] that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“The states have the authority to change this voting system for president, right now, in fact, if they wanted, on an emergency basis, they could adopt a ranked-choice system, which simply allows you to go to the poll, and rather than rolling your dice and deciding whether to vote your values or your fears, you get to rank your choices, knowing that if your first choice loses your vote is automatically assigned to your second choice. It's kind of a no-brainer system. It works very well.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.”

Ifs Persons States United United States Fashion Authority Constitution Investigation Unwilling Assertion Prosecutor

Author:John Bolton

“The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.”

Giving States Use President United United States Authority Constitution Wide Grants Pardon

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

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