#government

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. ↗

— Jay Kay

#british #british government #cars #collection #give

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#american #american government #clinton #everyone #feel

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#error #falling #function #government #into

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#governments #international #international law #law #mandated

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fears #government #liberty #people #tyranny

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#first #government #honorable #misery #office

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#agreed #bring #difficult #enforcing #form

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.... Over the years, I’ve grown used to these arguments, and my response has rarely wavered: Sure, we might make dumb choices sometimes, but we will defend, to the end, the right to make choices at all, because we believe that our collective conscience, freely expressed, will eventually lead us in the right direction. When it comes to guns, it is getting harder to muster that argument abroad. Every new shooting, every new failure of will and citizenship, slashes another hole in our credibility as a way of life. ↗

— Evan Osnos

#authoritarianism #credibility #democracy #government #gun-policy

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#beyond #billion #break #buy #consumers