Quotes 121 till 140 of 166.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
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The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
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There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
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They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
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Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
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Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970) -
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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