Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom
Andrew Johnson
Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom
Andrew Johnson
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire
Richard Milhouse Nixon
Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends-those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?-now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail-if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come
Abraham Lincoln
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends
Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle
Abraham Lincoln
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it
Lao-Tzu
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government
Unknown
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
Voltaire
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government
Woody Allen
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests
Patrick Henry
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth
Mark Twain
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves
Henry David Thoreau
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it
Ronald Reagan