Quotes About Government

James Madison said it another way: "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

T]he Supreme Court is where the country takes out its dick and tits and decides who's going to get fucked and who's getting a taste of mother's milk. It's constitutional pornography in there[.]

During the height of the government enforcement of the Civil Rights Act, some segregated townships filled in their municipal pools rather than let nonwhite kids share in the perverse joy of peeing in the water.

Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war.

currently, the federal government will loan any admitted student who isn't already in default on an educational loan the full cost of attendance to attend any ABA law school – and that cost is determined by the school. In other words, a law school can charge literally anything it wants to

Governments could recognize the huge value added if the two biological parents choose to live together with the child: a tax-credit bonus could reduce the tax burden for those who are taxpayers, and income could be supplemented by an equivalent amount for those who are not. The commitment of young parents to their children benefits us all, and we should be prepared to pay for it. When parents withhold this commitment, the rest of us pay for it – heavily.

In September 2001, after an unnecessary international war with Ethiopia, half the Eritrean cabinet wrote to the president, Isaias Afwerki, asking him to think again about his autocratic style of government. He thought about it and imprisoned them all.

Es natural que un gobierno de un país en situación de posguerra trate de defenderse, pero no le servirá de nada.

But in truth, those of us fortunate enough to have lived all our lives in a mature democracy only think of elections because we take so much else for granted. Democracy is not just elections; it is a whole set of rules that limit what government can do.

A "conspiracy theory" no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead it now means any explanation or even a fact that is out of step with the government's explanation and that of its media pimps.

As a politician, if you are really interested in tackling inequality to ensure that as many people as possible have 'just enough', then you need to ensure that the rich stop using, as Stiglitz puts it, 'their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending'.

We were convinced about the rightness of our projects. And we were angry about the wrongness of the Salvadoran and American governments' projects. This conviction and this anger introduced a certain violence into our words and sometimes our conduct, never physical, but nonetheless harmful.

Maybe one day History will tell us that Ebola never won but rather Government's failed to act, and that Ebola just simply walked in and meet No resistance, Barring a few brave souls that fought the Virus on their own and never relied on the Government Coming to Help, the victor always writes the history what will Ebola write about Mankind

If a complete free market seemed efficacious in principle, in practice it had not delivered the basic services necessary for a country to call itself civilised.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

From that day on I clearly understood that the kingdom of God can never mix with politics

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.

Now, it's true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.

Washington's appointments, when president, were made with a view to gather all the talent of the country in support of the national government; and he bore many things which were personally disagreeable in an endeavor to do this.

Tisto, ?emur nekateri pravijo korupcija, je v resnici visoka Fideszova politika. Ho?em povedati, da si je vlada zadala, da bo ustvarila skupino doma?ih podjetnikov, ki bodo postali stebri mo?ne Madžarske.

Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone." "Surprising outcome, don't you think?" "Not at all. The justices don't have bags of cocaine in the trunks of their cars, so the drug seizure cases usually go the government's way. But every justice has a cell phone.

The federal government is a ponderous battleship, weighed down by its own armor and slow to change course. But when it chooses to marshal its might against an individual, the government is a lean, mean, conviction machine. Meanwhile, the defendant's lawyer is a loinclothed Roman gladiator protected by a wooden shield, leather shin guards, and prayers to the god Jupiter. The Constitution promises due process but not a fair fight.

As much as we prize our commitment to the individual and pay lip service to the presumption of innocence, it's the government's courthouse, the government's prosecutor, and the government's judge. Every time you go to trial, you are the Miami Dolphins playing an away game against the Patriots in a January blizzard.