#gov

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief. ↗

— James Bovard

#dignified #government #hard #looking #many

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing. ↗

— James Bovard

#doing #government #like #obliged #only

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ↗

— Chester Bowles

#government #important #left #politicians #too

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#american #american tradition #be true #beliefs #governmental

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#bring #commit #conviction #crimes #criminal

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#good #good fortune #governments #people #think

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#america #campaign #clearly #congress #democracy

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #distinct #government #having #however

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#bill of rights #create #designed #did #framers