“You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.” IfsGovernmentCareValuesSacrificeBehaviorDon't CareAgencyWrong ThingsGovernment Agencies Author:Edward Snowden
“I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.” MenWayFeelsTryingDreamGovernmentKidsSchoolDesireHouseIndividualMy OwnResultsPayCompassionMorningMillionsSacrificeShareTaxesFindingsMen And WomenFruitSorryGet UpFortunateFallenEvery MorningNew WaysToilPaymentSomething BetterLess Fortunate Author:Ronald Reagan
“Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.” MenCountryGovernmentCareFacesFoundStudySacrificeGroupsSavingHealth CareUnconsciousMinoritiesGapsAssociationAssociatesIncentivesHeadlinesMinority GroupsWomen's Health Author:Warren Farrell
“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.” WholeGovernmentSpiritualSinSacrificeBloodIsraelRitualTypicalCalvary Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.” Has BeensEndsCountryGovernmentPoliticsLeftInterestEconomySacrificeGainsRaisedRateCongressAgencyLiberalismReservesFederal ReserveInterest RateGovernment Agencies Author:Wright Patman
“Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .” ThinkingMenArtGovernmentCareBornPartyCasesSacrificeSubjectsMankindHuman NatureOughtDemandBehaviorConcernedFellowsCommandAshamedIrrationalUnjustHuntsStatesmanshipCommand Not Author:Aristotle
“Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.” RealSelfGovernmentSacrificeRevolutionPainful Author:Li Keqiang
“What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?” GovernmentPurposePrinciplesSacrificeFundamentalsStructureCombinationUnjustFundamental PrinciplesRepublicanism Author:James Madison
“Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice your most sacred beliefs to government the instant you start a business. You have the protection of the First Amendment as an individual, you see – but the instant you start a business, you lose those protections.” FirstsGovernmentReligionPoliticsIndividualBeliefEnergyPresidentLosesWorkSacrificePolicyHealthPerspectiveConflictEthicsCapitalismSacredHuman RightsProtectionIdeologyInstantAlliesRegimesAmendmentsConsumerismFirst Amendment Author:Bobby Jindal
“Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.” WarStatesGovernmentTodayIndividualForceResponsibilitySacrificeCenturyCitizensDrugAuthorityBehaviorConceptsConstitutionArmyPoliceMajorityAcceptedLocalsRadicalThriveMassiveMeant To BeAggressiveInvestigationFederal GovernmentFbiEnvironmentalismProhibitionBureaucratsWar On DrugsAmerican CitizensNanniesRegulatorsLocal GovernmentPolice ForceIndividual ResponsibilityProwling Author:Ron Paul
“No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked.” PeopleGovernmentPlansSacrificeEconomicVoteAgreeUnionsDemocraticTraditionalDependentAdequateAbandonmentDefenceEuropean Union Author:Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
“Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentJobsOrderLibertySacrificeEasierMembersClaimsCongressOfficialsRepublicColleaguesFederal GovernmentGovernment Officials Author:Ron Paul
“I say unto you with all the soberness I can, that we stand in danger of losing our liberties, and that once lost, only blood will bring them back; and we of this church will, in order to keep the Church going forward, have more sacrifices to make, and more persecutions to endure than we have yet known. If the conspiracy comes here it will probably come in its full vigor and there will be a lot of vacant places among those who guide and direct, not only this government, but also this Church of ours.” IfsI CanGovernmentOrderLostChurchKnownLibertySacrificeBloodDangerLosingDirectEndureGuidesConspiracyPersecutionVigorVacant Author:J. Reuben Clark
“Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.” PeopleWayMeanEndsGovernmentLyingCultureLeftSocialPrinciplesSacrificePolicyIntegrityBehaviorProgramWingsDependentJustifyCheatingFraudStampsDishonestyCommonplaceLeft WingFood StampsSocial PolicyEnds Justify The MeansWheeling Author:James Cook
“Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.” PeopleMadeStatesDoneGovernmentActionSpeakLanguageUnitedPartyUnited StatesSacrificeCrimeSeriousDutyHeroCallingConstitutionExcuseWitnessMassiveHeroicHeroismEngagingHistoricViolationCivicsSpeaks OutCivic DutyConstitution Of The United StatesGreat SacrificeBad Actions Author:Edward Snowden
“I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.” FirstsSelfStatesGovernmentEffortSacrificeVictoryDisciplineSucceedSouthConvictionConvincedAdministrationDepartmentCommunistCombatOfficersVietnamCollapseTroopsPreparingJohnsonSense Of SelfSelf SacrificeEmbassySaigonViet CongForeign Service Author:William J. Duiker
“We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than enough to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and eliminate government indebtedness once and for all.” YearsEnoughGovernmentWould BeSacrificeDollarsPainfulSpendingInfrastructureCrumblingIndebtednessCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Robert H. Frank
“My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.” HeartGovernmentStruggleRiskSacrificeAchieveCitizensMy HeartBraveDemocraticIsraelWelcomeEach DayRegionsRegimesSyriaHistoric Author:Shimon Peres
“Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.” PeopleLittlesWarGovernmentUsedLossResultsEffortPayLibertyPovertySacrificeDrugProgramCurrentsTerrorismDeterminedAppealsConvinceFrighteningIgnoredPromptsGovernment ProgramsWar On Poverty Author:Ron Paul
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” IfsGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsOpinionSacrificeIndustryPoliticianJudgmentServingBetrayRepresentatives Author:Edmund Burke
“Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.” StatesGovernmentLawChoicesFearPowerfulSacrificeSecurityCitizensWeaponsProtectionPsychologicalRule Of LawPowerful Government Author:Philip Zimbardo
“It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.” WorldWayNeedsGivingSelfBigsGovernmentTurnsNationsAttentionSacrificeMysteryReadyPrideCitizensOrdinaryProgramEducationalPrimariesWelfareAspirationRepresentativesSelf CenteredCountyMaterialisticOrdinary CitizensHealth EducationBeing Self Centered Author:J. William Fulbright
“Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.” GivingGovernmentThreeGoalSituationSupportSacrificeSecurityTravelBraveryUnityIraqPrimariesTroopsFunny TravelAmerican TroopsNational Unity Author:John Boehner
“Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.” PeopleTryingProblemHandsGovernmentLibertySacrificeLibertarianShouldersLifts Author:John F. Kennedy