Robert A. Heinlein quote: "the government’—that’s too sweeping a term. ‘The government’ is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not ‘the government’

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Intercession is a prayer we have not for ourselves, but for others- for country government or any ot...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can...
BARACK OBAMA

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

We have to ask ourselves anew the larger question: What surveillance power should the government hav...
DANIEL SOLOVE

You have a weak government or no government or several factions claiming to be government. You have ...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150...
ERIC CANTOR

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just gover...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or pa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist withou...
EZRA STILES

Fifty million dollars is more of a symbolic gesture from the Korean government.
DANIEL KIM

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
JOE LOUIS

The governors and mayors of our region committed to $140 million in short-term funding. The federal ...
EMILY GREEN

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

We want to make sure every dollar is being spent in the best possible way, ... The government wants ...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM

One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more priso...
JAROD KINTZ

Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD

How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

That is the crux of the matter. The government could conceivably ask for individual names of people ...
ANDREW KRCIK

The next government will have a full term of four years, which requires that we have agreement on ho...
ALAA MAKKI

His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive...
JANE BYRNE

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

If the government cannot explain what happened at Enron and why it was wrong in terms a jury of 12 l...
ROSS ALBERT

The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the...
RON SCHILLER

It's not a case of FEMA not trying. It's not being able to whenever we were talking to the federa...
BILL BERRY

I'm so ashamed at how gullible my community is, the way the government sells them on what they are s...
JOSE BASULTO

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the s...
P. J. O'ROURKE

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, repres...
AUBERON HERBERT

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
GERHARD KOCHER

We now have a 10-year program and $60 million a year with which to buy land by legislation through t...
HERB BEHNKE

We believe we should wait and see the composition of a new government and the policies of a new gove...
CHRISTINA GALLACH

Individuals and families are due a refund, and that is exactly what we do with this legislation, ......
WILLIAM ROTH

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER

But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!
BETH REVIS

The EIB, the European Union's long-term financing institution, will lend EUR 43 million to the Gover...
CARMELO COCUZZA

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS

I feel alone.
I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket ...
BETH REVIS

If I were the government, I would fine the carriers each a million dollars a day until they comply w...
ALAN REITER

The industry wasn't built around the government and historically hasn't been regulated by the govern...
CONNIE CORRELL

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
GERHARD KOCHER

We would probably say it's a mistake. You get kind of short-term satisfaction on the part of the uni...
BILL REINSCH

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nov...
PETER MACKAY

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don...
CARL PALADINO

It's impossible for the government to hold on now. There were too many people in the streets ... The...
CHRISTOPHE BARBIER

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a me...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a me...
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have ...
ART BUCHWALD

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers wi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, n...
JAMES MADISON

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses o...
JAMES MADISON

If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of gro...
GROVER NORQUIST

This is a real shame. When a search engine collaborates with the government like this, it makes it m...
JULIEN PAIN

If the government cannot explain what happened at Enron and why it was wrong in terms a jury of 12 l...
ROSS ALBERT

We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL

incredible scheme to coerce and intimidate the government into paying them $10 million.
ROBERT HORAN

It was the finest piece of legislation ever passed. Just in income taxes alone, the government got b...
ANTHONY STASIO

We don't ask for the approval from the government to print things. But by the same token, we do want...
SCOTT ARMSTRONG

Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name...
WALTER CRONKITE

I was not surprised at being asked to serve at that level because I am one of the most senior person...
DERRICK KELLIER

This is the hardest I have ever worked in trying to ask the government to let Northwest pay. All we'...
ANDREA NEWMAN

This is the hardest I have ever worked in trying to ask the government to let Northwest pay. All we'...
ANDREA FISCHER NEWMAN

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price ...
GROUCHO MARX

Our main purpose for having the citizens government academy is really just to educate people in the ...
CATIEL FELTS

I'm glad to see the government take some action to stop firms from illegally receiving Federal small...
LLOYD CHAPMAN

One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proo...
LYSANDER SPOONER

For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied fun...
LALU PRASAD YADAV

I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I ca...
BETH REVIS

A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government doe...
LOUIE GOHMERT

General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give gov...
RICK SCOTT

the government’—that’s too sweeping a term. ‘The government’ is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not ‘the government’—but what individuals?

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Robert A. Heinlein

the government’—that’s too sweeping a term. ‘The government’ is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not ‘the government’—but what individuals?

Robert A. Heinlein

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