There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability. Will Rogers View this quote
There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability. Will Rogers
Will Rogers
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. Barack Obama
Barack Obama
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
…I do not mean to say that this government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. Will Rogers
The very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. David Hume
David Hume
