“When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.” HomeGovernmentLordOught Author:Rick Perry
“I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.” YearsHas BeensGovernmentPastLordPolicyCoupleActivityAdmirationFrankTheftAmazementVetinari Author:Terry Pratchett
“[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.” PeopleIfsHas BeensWarRealityGovernmentLawLordJudgingAmountPoliticianDrugVictimAverageInnocentDestroyedAgentsDependentOfficersCashLaw EnforcementEnforcementHighwaysAirportsBeneficialWar On DrugsPretext Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.” WorldStatesGovernmentFormLawThreeLordDemocracyDemocraticTemperForms Of GovernmentOligarchyAutocracy Author:Aeschines
“All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.” WantGivingMeanChildrenDoePlayHomeGovernmentCitiesBehindsLordStruggleFieldsAmountGardenAll ThingsMaskOur LordLord God Author:Martin Luther
“I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .” YearsStatesGovernmentNamesLeftUnitedLordUnited StatesCrimeSaintCommittedIsraelOfficersMissouriLord GodRedress Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.