Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.
Toba BetaTags: government rule effective
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
H.L. MenckenTags: ideas government laws idiots
It is not the function of our 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 H. JacksonTags: government citizens oversight
Tags: government
A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.
Toba BetaTags: unique government unusual uncommon moral-compass tryrant
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.
John CalvinTags: god democracy government
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830
Tags: government people-s-government
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics power history class government conflict
Uncertainty is one of government recipes.
Toba BetaTags: secret uncertainty government recipes ruling
In any government, interests precede truth.
Toba BetaTags: truth government interests precede
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