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"If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised    Share


"Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War. "

Kipling, Rudyard on uncategorised
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"There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. "

Bacon, Francis on uncategorised    Share

"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. "

Rogers, Will on uncategorised    Share

"Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised    Share

"That most delicious of all privilegesspending other peoples money. "

Randolph, John on uncategorised    Share

"There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit. "

Rockefeller, Nelson on uncategorised    Share

"We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised    Share

"It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another. "

Washington, George on uncategorised    Share

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. "

Madison, James on uncategorised    Share

"In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty. "

Blackstone, Sir William on uncategorised    Share

"The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. "

Madison, James on uncategorised    Share

"The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?"

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

"The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people. "

Cleveland, Grover on uncategorised    Share

"In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself?"

Nixon, Richard M. on uncategorised    Share

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised    Share

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