We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.
We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.
First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.
I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.
If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
We should have a very limited federal government.
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
The essence of good government is trust.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
A brick could be used as a weight to keep the cardboard cutout of the Federal Government from blowing over. Well, at least unless a hurricane gets here, which would mean the government knocked down the government.
I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of t...
But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstr...
