Officials Quotes - Page 39

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Average, Law, Numbers

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The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

H. L. Mencken

Son, Government, Long

H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.

John McCain

Soldier, Enemy, Different

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My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

Thomas Jefferson

Political Opinions, Differences, Office

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In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.

Adrian Hodges

Book, Giving, Doe

Source: collider.com

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Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

James Purdy

America, Fraud, Huge

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

Isaac Mayer Wise

Ends, Establishment, Grades

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Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.

Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

Thomas Sowell

Children, School, Mean

"Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Law, Finance, Stolen

"Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

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Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight against the Islamic State. But we're hearing from French officials that [Francois] Hollande hasn't changed his stance. He's - he's still saying that sanctions shouldn't be lifted until the Minsk agreement has been implemented.

Corey Flintoff

Islamic, Fighting, Russia

Source: www.npr.org

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We were going to call it "Star Trek: The Avengers", and for a while we were like, "People are going to love that title". No, we had a whole bunch of titles, we never had any official title until we came out with this, we had different conversations about other things.

Bryan Burk

Stars, People, Titles

Source: collider.com

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It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

Glenn Greenwald

Government, Ideas, People

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When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

Seth Klarman

Government, Attention, Pay

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Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

Seth Klarman

Responsibility, Agency, Government

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A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line.

Rod Lurie

Book, Editors, Rumor

Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 2, 2009.

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Now that Hillary Clinton is officially running for President I am officially not going to vote for her. It's official.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.

Running, President, Vote

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It is impossible to find a single example of a monopoly that has ever existed without official protection.

Faustino Ballve

Example, Impossible, Protection

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The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian one, and the meeting of these particular minds has always spelled Polish ruin.

Norman Davies

Believe, Views, Mind

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When you hit 'Save' on a spread sheet and you assign a spreadsheet to something, that [stuff] becomes official.

Geoff Ramsey

Stuff, Sheets, Spread

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[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

Glenn Greenwald

Political, Secret, Desire

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A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles.

Judith Herrin

Christian, Home, Style

Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Here a double guarantee could be found: first, that government would do nothing to give official endorsement to a religion or to set one faith above another; second, that government would do nothing to inhibit the freedom of religion.

Edwin Gaustad

Exercise, Government, Law

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Socialist society is a society of officials.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialist

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.161, VM eBooks

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As a new president takes office and elevates global warming alarmism to official federal policy, much of America is experiencing record low temperatures. While the deep freeze amounts to little more than irony, Americans should nevertheless take what could well be a last opportunity to reconsider the cliff off which Barack Obama, Al Gore and the rest of the global warming industry want us to jump.

Steven Milloy

Opportunity, America, Office

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Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded.

Michelle Malkin

Bridges, California, Pie

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