#politics

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all. ↗

— Ron Paul

#freedom

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #politics #freedom

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950] ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dissent #freedom-of-speech #opposition #politics #repression

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#friendship #peace #politics #power #war

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#goddamned #good #helluva #people #politics

Política não é apenas ideal, é caminho para se aproximar do ideal ↗

— Fernando Henrique Cardoso

#politics #inspirational

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness] ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#historyofpower #inspirational #politics #inspirational

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue ↗

— Tobsha Learner

#politics #power #intelligence

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins: Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#deadly-sins #education #gandhi #pleasure #politics

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#world-politics #intelligence