Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Government Quotes
FreedomGovernmentLibertyMilitaryUnion Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
GovernmentJusticeOppressionWeakness Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
GovernmentHungerInjusticeTaxation The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
CitizenshipEqualityGovernmentJusticeRights It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.
Decision MakingDialogueGovernmentOpinionsWisdom In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
CorruptionGovernmentHonorMoralitySociety When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
GovernmentLibertyMilitaryRepublicanismTyranny Overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
AuthorityGovernmentProposingResponsibility It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
BurdenChallengeDebtGovernmentLegacy I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Class ConsciousnessDestinyGovernmentSocietyUnity No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Civic EngagementEducationGovernmentKnowledgePublic Opinion Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
CynicismGovernmentPoliticsSkepticismTradition The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
GovernmentPopular SovereigntyRevolutionRights This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.
GeopoliticsGovernmentMilitary InvolvementPreparationResponsibility When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.
CitizenshipEducationFuture GenerationsGovernmentResponsibility We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
EconomicsGovernmentHuman HappinessPublic HealthSuffering Reduction Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
AuthorityGovernmentPreservationPropertySociety Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
ChangeFamilyGovernmentInequalitySociety Of course, it's hard to get interested in the whole idea of government. Nothing ever changes, especially people saying 'nothing ever changes,' despite the fact their kid now has a free nursery place and their aunt was forced to work despite having dementia.
GovernmentPowerWriters For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
GovernmentLawMaterial ConditionMoralityPolicy It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
BiologyCommunicationGovernmentPrimitive SystemsSize Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
CommerceGovernmentInnovationResearchTechnology Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
Civic KnowledgeDemocracyGovernmentIntellectualismLiterature I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
