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“Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.”

Giving May Government Order Fighting Names Liberty Protect Giving Up Claims Terrorism Civil Liberties Fighting Terrorism

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.”

People Want Government Organization Claims Definitions Make Sense

Book:The Avatar

Source: The Avatar

“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.”

“The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.”

Mind Long Doe Government Lasts Subjects Bears India Claims Blow British Innocent Nails Coffins Civilised British Rule British Rule In India

Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.”

“Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.”

Hands Government Justice Weapons Claims Instruments Chiefs Rely Diplomacy Supremacy Skillful Soundness Dexterity

Author:James Ellis

“Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.”

“Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.”

Government Action Father Rights Economic Demand Claims Medicine Goods Founding Our Founding Fathers Takeovers Government Takeover

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.”

“Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.”

Giving May Government Individual Force Attention Atheism Influence Claims Positive Atheism Tendencies Appropriate Reverence Consistency Persuasion Permanence

Book:Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness

Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness

“In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.”

People Men Firsts Country Government Would Be Lasts America Mankind Claims Responsible Fellows Analysis

Book:The Hope of the World: Messages and Addresses Delivered by the President Between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, Including Selections from His Country-wide Speeches in Behalf of the Treaty and Covenant

Source: The Hope of the World: Messages and Addresses Delivered by the President Between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, Including Selections from His Country-wide Speeches in Behalf of the Treaty and Covenant