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Letter "G" » Government
«The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic government, democratic state, essence, fascism, group, groups of people, group of people, individual liberty, ownership, private, private ownership, strong point, tolerate
«The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.»
Author: James Knox Polk
(President)
| About:
Government,
Politicians
| Keywords:
disreputable, embarrasses, not absolutely, offices, operations, The Passion, votes
«The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
People,
Power
| Keywords:
branches, Branches of, charter, chartered, charters, constitutional, derived, fountain, legitimate
«The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
breaking, crack, crack down, criminals, criminal law, declares
«The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Government,
Politics
| Keywords:
development, institutions, insure, insured, insures, insuring, justifiable, political, political institutions, unhindered
«The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people»
«The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Liberty,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
American people, entrust, entrusted, entrusts, experiment, justly, model, preservation, Republican, staked
«The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Lies,
Men,
Truth
| Keywords:
admire, American, American people, daring, detest, detested, detesting, detests, extravagantly, liars, The American, The Men, violently
«The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not»
«The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
gain ground, ground, The Natural, yield
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