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"Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny." -- Barry Goldwater
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel Webster
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." -- James Madison
"The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
"Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine."
-- Victor Ferkiss
"The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism."
--Justice William Brennan
"In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born: that they are not superior to the citizen: that every one of them was once the act of a single man: every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case: that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."
--Learned Hand
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."
--Reverend Martin Niemoeller
Local Government Contents
| Carmel-By-The-Sea City Council (back to top) | |
City of Carmel-By-The-Sea
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Sue McCloud, Mayor 4/2009
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| Del Rey Oaks City Council (back to top) | |
City of Del Rey Oaks
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Joseph R. Russell, Mayor 11/2010
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| Gonzales City Council (back to top) | |
City of Gonzales
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Maria Orozco, Mayor 11/2010
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| Greenfield City Council (back to top) | |
City of Greenfield
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John P. Huerta, Jr., Mayor 11/2010
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| King City City Council (back to top) | |
City of King City
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Jeff Pereira, Mayor 11/2010
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| Marina City Council (back to top) | |
City of Marina
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Bruce Delgado, Mayor 11/2009
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| Monterey City Council (back to top) | |
City of Monterey
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Chuck Della Sala, Mayor 11/2008
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| Pacific Grove City Council (back to top) | |
City of Pacific Grove
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Carmelita Garcia, Mayor 11/2010
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| Salinas City Council (back to top) | |
City of Salinas
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Dennis Donohue, Mayor 11/2012
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| Sand City City Council (back to top) | |
City of Sand City
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David K. Pendergrass, Mayor 11/2010
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| Seaside City Council (back to top) | |
City of Seaside
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Ralph Rubio, Mayor 11/2010
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| Soledad City Council (back to top) | |
City of Soledad
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Richard Ortiz, Mayor 11/2012
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| Monterey County Board of Supervisors (back to top) | |
District 1 County Supervisor District 2 County Supervisor
District 3 County Supervisor
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District 4 County Supervisor
District 5 County Supervisor
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| State of California Locally Elected Officials (back to top) |
District 15, State Senator Abel Maldonado 11/2009
District 12, State Senator Jeff Denham 11/2010
District 27 State Assemblymember Bill Monning 11/2010
District 28 State
Assemblymember Anna Caballero 11/2008
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger 11/2010
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| United States Locally Elected Officials (back to top) |
U.S. Representative: The Honorable Sam Farr 11/2010
U.S. Senator: The Honorable Barbara Boxer 11/2010
U.S. Senator: The Honorable Dianne Feinstein 11/2010
U.S. President: President Barack Obama 11/2012
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