Sam Graves Quotes

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• I have faith in the jury system.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Faith
  • System
  • Jury

• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Home
  • Society
  • Government

• There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Job
  • Future
  • Free

• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • System
  • Finding

• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Modern
  • System
  • Absurdity

• Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Day
  • Government
  • End

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Funny
  • Wish
  • Government

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Conflict
  • System
  • Continue

• We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Power
  • Government
  • Take

• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • American
  • Government
  • Cloud

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Alone
  • System

• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Taken

• The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Constitution

• The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • God
  • Law
  • Government

• All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

  

  Helen Suzman
  • War
  • Government
  • Stories

• Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an American audience, and that is that the Islamic world has a very strong sense of history. In the Muslim world, history is important and their knowledge of history is not always accurate but is very detailed. There is a strong historical sense in the Muslim world, a feeling for the history of Islam from the time of the Prophet until the present day.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Muslims

• The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Government
  • United States
  • Criminals

• The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • System
  • Safe