When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Theodore RooseveltTags: politics government government-corruption senate
While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.
China MiévilleTags: humor bureaucracy government-corruption
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.
H.L. MenckenTags: liberty government government-corruption independance
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: politics corruption government government-corruption corporatism corporations washington-dc-politics washington-dc corporate-ethics bribery inside-job
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: politics democracy paradoxes satire elections vote disappointment government government-corruption voting satirical political politicians election political-parties democracy-voting gadfly false-promises disappointments election-results general-election general-elections i-didn-t-vote i-hate-politics i-voted cast-your-vote not-what-you-were-expecting votes
The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.
James BoyleTags: government-corruption intellectual-property patents
The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be a heretic or a revolutionary
James BoyleTags: government-corruption intellectual-property
-The very absence of the freedom to criticise against your own or any other government is all the more a reason to loudly shout-out for democracy! If that is wrong, Drew boldly went on, -then I would rather be wrong then to be numbered among the majority of the so-called righteous people whose only mandate seems to be controlling people. If a government is against its people expressing themselves, then that government is obviously hiding something criminal from its people and the world, and it is therefore afraid of being exposed and losing whatever power it has.
Andrew James PritchardTags: society government-corruption repression individual-freedom
The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
Tiffany MadisonTags: politics liberty freedom tyranny guns government-corruption founding-fathers self-defense second-amendment gun-control gun-rights gun-laws politics-of-the-united-states
Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.
Tiffany MadisonTags: politics liberty freedom tyranny guns government-corruption resistance founding-fathers self-defense second-amendment gun-control gun-rights gun-laws politics-of-the-united-states
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