“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'” IfsFactsGovernmentAmericaPoliticalNationsPartyMoralWatchesOughtMembersJokesDiedDemocratOrganizedReportsDelusionPolitical PartiesGreat NationsTombstoneMoral Leadership Author:Will Rogers
“Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.” PeopleMenShouldHumansWellsHas BeensGovernmentBornUnitedRaceWatchesOughtLessonsSlaveryIgnorantHuman RaceEnlightenedOver ItDividedAwakenedCheatedYokeBorn Free Author:James Madison
“The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.” DoeCountryGovernmentWatchesPrayingSenateChaplains Author:Sam Levenson
“My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.” KindGovernmentFormTermCommonWatchesRecordsSecurityActivityIllusionPerformancesTheaterSpeciesMy FavoriteGenreAcknowledgeAgencyInspectionGovernment Agencies Book:How Music Works Source: How Music Works
“And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.” PeopleMayStatesCharacterGovernmentLibertyWatchesAtheismEqualConstitutionPositive AtheismProtectionDevotionProhibitionEncroachment Author:James Madison
“Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.” IfsWantCountryGovernmentAbleOrderIndividualWatchesKeysInternetMassProgramToolsInternationalPopulationSurveillanceLandingFiberProvidersInterchangeService Providers Author:Edward Snowden
“Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.” IfsGovernmentEyeKidsAsksBitsSilenceWatchesBirthBlameConcertsYellowManufacturingSpongesCondomSpongebob Squarepants Author:Thom Yorke
“... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.” PeopleStatesGovernmentAbleEarthCan DoLibertyWatchesEffectsOperationsOpponentsAssumptionFederal GovernmentGuardianLegislatureState LegislaturesJealously Book:Selected Writings of James Madison Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?” IfsShouldFirstsWholeGovernmentThreeHouseStrongWatchesRightsConstitutionCourtCongressContrarySupremeChecksDoctrineInstanceBranchesDividedSupreme CourtInvasionHeresyJudiciaryUnconstitutionalImpeachmentRelapseAdriftUsurpation Author:Thomas Jefferson