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Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere. Oil shocks have two causes. The first is natural, be...

Albert Marrin

You can tell a lot about a country by its prisons. In hippy-dippy Socialist Sweden, rapists and murders (all three of them) while away their days making arts and crafts in what are essentially taxpayer-funded mental health clinics. The Swedes’ theo...

Love

for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

Civil Disobedience

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ ]

Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Democracy in America

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.

The Divinity Factor

Sorry, I didn't see the big X with the words Top Secret Government Laboratory on the map, did you?

The Eternity Cure

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Fire in the Rain...Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse,” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any other.”26

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?

Fair Game

A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.

The Girl with All the Gifts

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

Heir to the Empire

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

The Black Banner

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.

The Bridge on the Drina

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Brodie's Report

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

In the Body of the World

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

Steve Forbes

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

Jared Sparks

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Arthur Laffer

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burd...

Dave deBronkart