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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #government




I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.


Thomas Jefferson


#debt #deficit-spending #government #loans #political-science

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.


Carl Sagan


#capitalism #corruption #government #history #oppression

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.


Thomas Jefferson


#happiness #health #safety #scope-of-government #purpose

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.


Derrick Jensen


#government #civilization

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.


Aristophanes


#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.


John Ralston Saul


#government #morals #ethics

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.


Tom Robbins


#cuba #government #passivity #revolution #anarchy

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.


Thomas Jefferson


#political-philosophy #corruption

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.


Edward Abbey


#oppression #subversion #totalitarianism #tyranny #wit

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#government #politics #charity






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