government

Under the clouds of war

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

former Republican President of the USA

What did liberals do that is so offensive to the Republicans

Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions ......of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things...every one!

— Matt Santos

The West Wing

My job is to get to the right answer, not the consensus answer. Sometimes the only way to get there is dissent.

— Eric Schmidt

Google CEO

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

— Albert Einstein

A little rebellion is a good thing now and then.

— Thomas Jefferson

Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

— Bruce Sterling

CFP 1994

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

— Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

Quoted in "Protecting the Constitution" Michie, 1984

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

— Paulo Freire

educator (1921-1997)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

— Thomas Jefferson
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