Quotes About Government

Opinions on the Crown and the government in general tend to make digestion much more of a chore than it should be.

You don't pay taxes–they take taxes.

You don't pay taxes-they take taxes.

by the way, Adams – unlike Madison – actually signed the Bill of Rights." Well, of course James Madison, as a member of the House of Representatives, didn't sign the Bill of Rights, and John Adams, as president of the Senate, did!

By 1971, 58 percent of Americans had concluded that the war in Vietnam was not just a mistake, but immoral.

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The act finally deregulated the rail industry, repealing the legislation that had created the Interstate Commerce Commission nearly a century previously.

the government moved swiftly to mandate that all trains should have "positive train control," an electronic signaling system that will automatically stop or slow down a train to prevent a crash if the engineer misses a red signal. Although the system may ultimately benefit the railroads marginally by making it possible to run extra trains, effectively they are being asked to pay several billion dollars

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If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed into subjects of the government they failed to keep in check.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

In a proper utopia, they would not let any lawyers in.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats...

Ronald Reagan used to say that the nine scariest words in the English language were 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.

Every revolution arises from the failure of a particular state in a particular moment. In Spain the Republican government crumbled in the wake of Franco's military revolt. Power was lying in the street, and the anarchist movement, the most powerful force among the workers and peasants, took it.

The first constitutional monarchy in the Muslim world was established in Tunis in 1861.

Elections to the sixteenth majles were held first in the provinces, and they were conducted so dishonestly that even the British were shocked.

I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.

The poor soldiers always do their duty in the most brilliant manner; but as soon as matters come again into the hands of politicians and diplomats, everything is again spoiled and confused.

sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.… —THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to a friend, 1816

The new government decided the best way to rectify this was to outlaw abortion and prohibit the sale or display of contraceptives in the Weimar constitution of 1919. During a time of unimaginable scarcity and fear, women were forced into motherhood. They were forced to make do, and the pressure to repopulate the nation, to birth and raise a new generation of mothers and soldiers, was enormous. It was the most important thing a woman could possibly do: Be the Good Mother.

Thousands of Polish soldiers rushed west to fight the invading German army, while the Polish government slipped out the back door and raced for neutral Rumania.

the machinery of direct repression.