“Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.” DoneEnoughGovernmentNamesGrowsAcceptanceDemandPopulationHeavyCommitPassiveAccessories Author:Frank Herbert
“Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.” HandsBigsGovernmentRepublicanDemocratHeavyLiberalismModeratesBig GovernmentDamp Author:Garrison Keillor
“America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.” WantBigsGovernmentChristianAmericaLawGrowsPracticeSupportPolicyMovementIndependentIntentionConservativeHeavyVersionsTemptationRighteousnessVotersDividesVersusTwistsHammersGood IntentionsBig GovernmentSmall Government Author:Dick Armey
“We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.” FirstsSometimesHomeSeemsGovernmentWould BeFilmNiceViolenceWorstTelevisionHeavyRapAdvertisingProgrammingSwimmingMetalsAmendmentsPornographyFirst AmendmentDaydreamingOutlawHeavy MetalNannies Author:Molly Ivins
“The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.” EnoughGovernmentTaxesLaysHeavy Author:Orville Dewey