“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone."
James Madison
“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
Clare Booth Luce
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
Frederick Douglass
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein
“George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.”
Author Unknown
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
Daniel Webster
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
Alexander Hamilton
“Most bad government has grown out of too much government.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
Thomas Paine
“A government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
“The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”
Andrew Jackson
“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
Ronald Reagan
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
John Adams
“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
James Madison
“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
William Penn
“The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.”
Maureen Murphy
“Patriotism means supporting your country all of the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
Winston Churchill
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”
John F. Kennedy
“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Declaration of Independence
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