“I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.”
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“Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?”
“People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.”
“If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.”
“The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.”
“National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.”
“I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.”
“My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.”
“Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?”
“This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.”
“People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.”
“It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.”
“The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.”
“The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.”
“If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.”
“I am the government.”
“The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.”
“In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.”
“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.”
“I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.”
“The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.”
“Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.”
“My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.”
“Aggression is simply another name for government.”