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“…The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher
“Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.”
Quote by -Margaret Thatcher
“Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field — the object is attained — and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“But if we are to be told by a foreign power what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“‘Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
Quote by -Eartha Kitt
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”
Quote by -James Madison
“A good Government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of Government, which is the happiness of the People; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.”
Quote by -James Madison
“In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
Quote by -James Madison
“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
Quote by -James Madison
“If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations.”
Quote by -James Madison
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
Quote by -James Madison
“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.”
Quote by -James Madison
“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
Quote by -James Madison
“I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is a legitimate constitution. And, if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for consistent and stable government.”
Quote by -James Madison