|
|
|
 |
| James Madison Quote |
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- James Madison
|
| Charles Caleb Colton Quote |
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. -- Charles Caleb Colton
|
| H.L. Mencken Quote |
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
|
| H.L. Mencken Quote |
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H.L. Mencken
|
| H.L. Mencken Quote |
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. -- H.L. Mencken
|
| H.L. Mencken Quote |
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office. -- H.L. Mencken
|
| H.L. Mencken Quote |
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. -- H.L. Mencken
|
| Hubert Humphrey Quote |
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. -- Hubert Humphrey
|
| Hubert Humphrey Quote |
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -- Hubert Humphrey
|
| Lyndon B. Johnson Quote |
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure) -- Lyndon B. Johnson
|
|
|
|
| 
| 
