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Quoting Terry Pratchett

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.' Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government.""Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it..."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Terry Pratchett

Quoting Winston S. Churchill

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"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Winston S. Churchill

Quoting George Washington

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"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting George Washington

Quoting Suzy Kassem

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"A NATION'S GREATNESS DEPENDS ON ITS LEADERTo vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do not let the media or the establishment make you pick from the people they choose, but instead choose from those they do not pick. Pick a leader from among the people who is heart-driven, one who identifies with the common man on the street and understands what the country needs on every level. Do not pick a leader who is only money-driven and does not … [Read more...] about Quoting Suzy Kassem

Quoting Stefan Molyneux

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"The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming change. As soon as scepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Stefan Molyneux

Quoting Frank Herbert

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"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Frank Herbert

Quoting Thomas Paine

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"When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good."Related Links: … [Read more...] about Quoting Thomas Paine

Quoting Ronald Reagan

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"As government expands, liberty contracts.""Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.""In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.""Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive"Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson … [Read more...] about Quoting Ronald Reagan