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The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the strongest government read more
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world
at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on
the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count read more
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in read more
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
