The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O’Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O’Brien: You do not exist.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and...

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

That is a possibility. The prime minister said providing assistance to a Palestinian government that doesn’t commit to those principles … would be difficult.

The terrorists are seeking to provoke sectarian war, and Iraq needs a government of national unity in the face of this threat. Iraq is bleeding while they are moving at a very slow pace.

It’s a terrorist attack to intimidate people working with the government side.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Everything is now stacked in favor of the government. You’re going to see pictures of New York City and the Pentagon you’ve never seen before, hear from survivors, officials in New York about the impact....

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

The Satanism Scare” (Ruben, 1994). And why do accounts like the ones given by the 37 ritually abused adults in the Young et al. (1991) study, and the 14 ritually abused families in the Kelly...

As to supporting his government, I fought for 10 years to put this Government in place. I will continue to support even more now that I?m out of the Cabinet.

Wananchi wataendelea kuwepo hata kama serikali haitakuwepo. Serikali haiwezi kuwashinda wananchi. Sauti ya umma ni sauti ya Mungu. Serikali haiwezi kumshinda Mungu.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has...

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Somebody tell Uncle Sam the ultimate stimulus package is a bottle of Viagra.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara – one of the great prophets of Christian...

I hope to form a government, which will have the broadest possible support, as quickly as possible.

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite...

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made “legal.” Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Frankly, that’s where we are today. In the last five years, this government has spent $1 billion to renovate schools. And yet you saw witness after witness come before us today saying the bathrooms at...

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

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.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Love is like a corn-dog popsicle, and I’m on the Most Wanted list. Unfortunately it’s by the government, specifically the FDA, and not by women.

The government has basically chased away all the people in that town. Golo is a ghost town. Everybody has left.

It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.

A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself...

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly...

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs… When the government sees its people...

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.

You want to make sure that we do no harm to those people who depend on needed government services that have no other means by which to obtain them, … There has to be a...

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

We’ve reached a point in human history where higher education no longer works. As a result of technology, higher education in its traditional college setting no longer works. It will never be effective or progressive...

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my...

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get...

The U.S. wants a government more than we do.

The Head of the Civil Service should stop the use of private plates because ministers and other Government officials use the privilege to cover up abuse.

[…] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.