#nation

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to review by adversarial courts, and subject to change by an accountable legislature guided by an informed public. If Americans are not able to learn how their government is interpreting and executing the law then we have effectively eliminated the most important bulwark of our democracy. That’s why, even at the height of the Cold War, when the argument for absolute secrecy was at its zenith, Congress chose to make US surveillance laws public. Without public laws, and public court rulings interpreting those laws, it is impossible to have informed public debate. And when the American people are in the dark, they can’t make fully informed decisions about who should represent them, or protest policies that they disagree with. These are fundamentals. It’s Civics 101. And secret law violates those basic principles. It has no place in America. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#law #national-security #secrets #surveillance #change

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. ↗

— Olivia Goldsmith

#expectations #happiness #insensitivity #low #low expectations

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#american public #borders #caucus #continues #focus

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles. ↗

— John Robert Gregg

#combinations #hooks #indicated

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#compelling #creepy #engaged #going #imagination

I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever... ↗

— Destiny Booze

#motivational #resilient #motivational

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. ↗

— William Greider

#globalization #instrument #international #international relations #marketplace

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. ↗

— David Horowitz

#anywhere #black #blacks #earth #efforts

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#cannot #country #creating #defeat #division