“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.” PeopleIfsMenMayMeanEndsWholeGovernmentLawOrderLibertyTeachTeacherCrimeExampleTerribleIllConvictionCriminalsEvery ManCommitSecureAdministrationJustifyAnarchyContemptInvitesContagiousRetributionLiberty And JusticeCriminal LawEnds Justify The MeansConflicting Opinions Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.” HomeGovernmentDiesBedShotsMurderTownsGuiltSoldierIllJewGrandmotherHolocaustJustificationPalestinianContinuingNaziMy GrandmotherExploitsIsraeliSlaughterGazaGentilesHome TownGerman SoldiersIsraeli Soldiers Author:Gerald Kaufman
“We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.” ThinkingNeedsGovernmentFormIllAttemptingForms Of GovernmentTailored Author:Ralph Peters
“Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their useful idiots. ... The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.” WarStatesGovernmentSchoolGivenNationsUnitedUnited StatesCongressIllProtectionTyrannyShootingIdiotGuaranteesTyrantsAmendmentsFederal GovernmentSecond AmendmentSchool Shooting Author:Walter E. Williams
“It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939...from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.” Has BeensWarGovernmentMightViewsEffectsArmyRegardGood ThingsDefeatIllBritishPoint Of ViewBritainDefeatedSeptemberMight Have BeenGoing To WarBritish GovernmentFrench Army Author:Maurice Cowling
“The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed.” WellsGovernmentNaturalPolicyCostBenefitsDemocraticIllPursueOrganizedPublic PolicyDemocratic Government Author:Peter Boettke
“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.” ThinkingMindGovernmentStrongPowerPositionPrejudiceIllPosition Of Power Book:The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam