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“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.”

Want Giving Mean Children Doe Play Home Government Cities Behinds Lord Struggle Fields Amount Garden All Things Mask Our Lord Lord God

Author:Martin Luther

“Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.”

“Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital instrument, human labor is not the best means... Furthermore, we have science, engineering and management - the three disciplines - that really plan and control the production of goods and services, trying to eliminate labor. Who the hell is government to come along and try to create labor? The people who are producing wealth are trying to eliminate toil, while the politicians are trying to create it.”

“The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.”

“His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.”

Ifs Knows Mean Government Audience Television Please Program Administration Sponsors

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.”

Want Needs Mean Bigs Government America Big Government

Author:Van Jones

“The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.”

People Mean Children Persons Government Might Care America Law Hate Streets Worst Ordinary Average Take Care Disagree Afghanistan Abandoned Slums Ordinary Person

Author:Immortal Technique

“The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.”

Mean Government Purpose Rights Source Citizens Authority Agents Servant Rulers Consent Delegation Consent Of The Governed

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.”

Thinking Needs Mean Use Government Social Democracy Productions Socialism Social Democracy

Author:David Cunliffe

“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.”

“When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?”

“Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.”

Mean Reason Government Political Natural Customs Representatives Equilibrium Inertia

Book:The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

“Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.”

World Firsts Mean Long Has Beens Government Lasts Force Parent Views Mankind Policy Intention Endure Confusion Fraud Good Intentions Refined

Book:The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

“There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.”

Mean Government Security Taxes Paper Institutions Trade Notes Productions Checks Our Future Consent Your Future Mortgage Rubber Receipts Paper Money

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.”

Mean Ideas Hands Government Class Safe Republic

Author:Wendell Phillips

“The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media.”

Mean Important Stories Government Able Voice Opinion Media Balance Communicate Favors Opposition Editorials

Author:Stephen Harper

“It is the responsibility of all of us to remind governments of their commitments to settle disputes by peaceful means and to negotiate in good faith under the UN Charter, and to denounce war agitation particularly by the media.”

Mean War Government Responsibility Media Commitment Peaceful Settling Disputes Charter Agitation Good Faith

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.”

People Knows Mean Government Practice Democracy Essentials Agree Participation Consultation

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.”

“Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.”

Mean Government Process Periods Executives Monitoring Legislative Process

Author:John Allen Fraser

“In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.”

Mean War States Government Political Police Unnecessary Inflation Police State Looting Centralization Lexicon Unnecessary War

Author:Ron Paul

“Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.”

Mean Dream Government Able Political Politics Sports Term Water Economy Ethics Property Spending Oil Stealing Sufficient Fund Stolen Deficit Spelling Surplus Political Economy Oil And Water

Author:Ilana Mercer

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