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Related Topic(s): Government

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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George Washington

He presided over the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 because of general dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation. Washington became President of the United States in 1789 and established many of the customs and usages of the new government's executive department. He sought to create a nation capable of surviving in a world torn asunder by war between Britain and France.
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Related Topic(s): Disempowerment; Economics; Empowerment; Government; History; Liberty; Limitations; Power

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it".
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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian, an institutionalist, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism.
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Related Topic(s): 911; Conspiracy Theory; Government; Government Fraud; Politics; Politics; Writers

David Ray Griffin

"We are capable of bringing this whole adventure of our life to an end...in our time".
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David Ray Griffin

Related Topic(s): Culture; Disempowerment; Government; Men Women; Politics

I sometimes think politics is what happens to men, and culture is what happens to women.
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Gloria Steinem

Related Topic(s): Culture; Disempowerment; Government; Men Women; Politics

I sometimes think politics is what happens to men, and culture is what happens to women.
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Gloria Steinem

Related Topic(s): Government; Government Fraud; Truth

Anyone at this point who is willing to equate evidence-free government assertions with Truth is drowning in some extreme levels of authoritarianism, by definition

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Glenn Greenwald

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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No, I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils...
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Muhammed Ali

Muhammad Ali (/ï¿½'ËËˆliË/; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is now highly regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.

Born Cassius Clay, he began training at 12 years old and at the age of 22 won the world heavyweight championship in 1964 from Sonny Liston in a stunning upset. Shortly after that bout, Ali joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name. He converted to Sunni Islam in 1975.

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