We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any […]
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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]
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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according […]
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Jefferson , 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Winston Churchill , British politician (1874 – 1965)
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Great short quote and quotation by: Harry S Truman , 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972)
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Great short quote and quotation by: Harry S Truman , 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972)
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government… Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence) ,
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Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Great short quote and quotation by: Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959 , 33rd president of US (1884 – 1972)
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 – 1804)
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