Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]
Tag: liberty freedom government civil-rights privacy encroachment policy
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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
Dennis KucinichTag: politics united-states government political health-care health-insurance insurance
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.
Alexander HamiltonTag: society united-states chance violence government accident
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.
Tag: politics government nations
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: fear liberty power freedom democracy thought oppression dictatorship government independent-thought
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsTag: honesty integrity government truth-telling
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: democracy government
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
Thomas JeffersonTag: history government scope-of-government
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Mark TwainTag: government
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
Thomas JeffersonTag: government
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