“Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.” PeopleStatesGovernmentSocialCitizensWasteAgencyOfficialsContractsBureaucratsBreachSocial ContractGovernment Officials Author:Bob Riley
“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.” GovernmentLawLyingLibertyPrinciplesSubjectsPositionCitizensFoundationDenyCommandCivil RightsOfficialsExceptionalCivil LibertiesGovernment OfficialsLaw Courts Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it -- at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens.” UseGovernmentPoliticalNextResponsibilityCasesEconomicCitizensAdvantagePropertySocialismTitlesOfficialsAcquireFascismOwnershipLife Or DeathGovernment Officials Author:Ayn Rand
“Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.” GovernmentBeliefCitizensPreparedExpertsOfficialsPanicTrustedBiasEmergenciesPreparednessGovernment OfficialsLootingEmergency Preparedness Author:Amanda Ripley
“It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.” PeopleIdeasGovernmentDangerousOughtCitizensMajorityOfficialsGovernment Officials Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.” HumansGovernmentEconomyCitizensBenefitsSpendingBudgetsOfficialsHuman FreedomGovernment Officials Author:Amity Shlaes
“WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.” WarShowsGovernmentTogetherLyingCitizensOfficialsWorking TogetherFraudExposingWikileaksGovernment OfficialsWaging WarGovernment Work Book:63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read Source: 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read