“The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'” LongSaidRealGovernmentGrowsWaterLandFlowOilGrassRhymeThey SaidSay AnythingTreatiesOklahoma Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929 Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929
“Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.” PeopleSelfGovernmentOpinionSucceedFlowSteadyFreedom Of SpeechCritiqueRobustSelf-governmentRebuttal Author:William O. Douglas
“As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day--both at home and abroad - ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.” BelieveImportantRealHomeSeemsGovernmentI BelieveGrowsRolesOur LivesInformationFlowLet MeIndependentPressesConservativeChecksEnterpriseFreedom Of SpeechVitalityLimited GovernmentFree PressRole Of Government Author:Mike Pence
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.” ThinkingKnowsMenBelieveLooksLongSelfGovernmentLawPoliticalIndividualForceNaturalLibertyPovertyCrimeDevelopmentPeriodsExerciseElementsFlowVoteFundamentalsMiseryCampaignsConfusionReliefAnarchismAnarchistBeggingNatural LawPolitical CampaignPersonal LibertyChanges In SocietyNatural Elements Author:Lucy Parsons
“Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.” TryingIdeasGovernmentPoliticalEconomyInformationFlowFuelThreateningPolitical PowerCyberspaceAuthoritarian Government Author:Ian Bremmer
“Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.” PeopleIfsMenWellsSelfCountryWisdomGovernmentPoliticalFatherPoliticsIndividualSocialWealthLibertyEnemyEconomySawsRightsEconomicRepublicanSucceedUnderstoodFlowPropertyInsightExperimentsLiberalismEnterpriseFoundingOur Founding FathersPolitical PowerFree EnterpriseIndividual LibertySelf-governmentEconomic Power Author:Ronald Reagan
“Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.” MeanHas BeensIdeasGovernmentCoursesForceResponsibilityEconomyCoupleDemandBehaviorEconomicsFlowSentencesEmploymentExpansionRecessionsAutonomousPurchasingRestrainingKeynesPurchasing PowerKeynesianism Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.” IfsTryingReasonGovernmentPoliticalNightForceSportsLinesMoralMoralityStandardsAreasFlowEntertainmentArmed ForcesSports Entertainment Author:Margaret Halsey