Famous Quotes By Arthur Henderson

 

1. Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
2. As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
3. Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
4. He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
5. In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
6. In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
7. It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
8. Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
9. On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
10. The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
11. The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
12. The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
13. The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
14. The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
15. The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
16. Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
17. Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
18. To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
19. We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
20. Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Famous Quotes By Adam Carolla

 

1. A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
2. All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
3. I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while.
4. I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
5. I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
6. I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
7. I don't know anything about computers.
8. I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
9. I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
10. I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
11. If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
12. If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
13. It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.
14. Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
15. My first car was a motorcycle.
16. My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
17. People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
18. The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
19. Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
20. You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Famous Quotes By Peter Singer

 

1. Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.
2. Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
3. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
4. Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
5. Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
6. I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.
7. I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
8. In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.
9. In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
10. In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
11. Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
12. It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
13. Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
14. That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
15. We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
16. What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.
17. When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

Famous Quotes By Lucy Powell

 

1. Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
2. As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.
3. As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.
4. As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
5. At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
6. Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
7. For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
8. Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
9. I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.
10. I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.
11. In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
12. In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
13. In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.
14. It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
15. Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
16. The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
17. The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
18. The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
19. There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
20. Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.
21. We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
22. What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

 

Famous Quotes By Denis Diderot

 

1. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
2. Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
3. Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
4. Good music is very close to primitive language.
5. If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
6. It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
7. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
8. Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
9. No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
10. Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
11. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
12. Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
13. People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
14. Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
15. Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
16. Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
17. The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
18. The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
19. The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
20. The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
21. There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
22. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
23. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
24. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
25. When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
26. When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

 

Famous Quotes By David Cameron

 

1. Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.
2. Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
3. For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.
4. From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
5. I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
6. I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
7. It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.
8. The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
9. The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
10. There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
11. We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
12. What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
13. Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

 

Famous Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

 

1. A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
2. Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
3. Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
4. For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
5. Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
6. Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
7. I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
8. I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
9. If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
10. Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
11. The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
12. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
13. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
14. The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
15. The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
16. This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
17. To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
18. Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
19. Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
20. We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
21. We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

 

Famous Quotes By Daniel H. Wilson

1. As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
2. Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
3. I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.
4. I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
5. In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
6. Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
7. Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
8. We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
9. We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
10. You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Famous Quotes By Andrew Cuomo

 

1. I am against the death penalty.
2. I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
3. I am the government.
4. I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
5. I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
6. I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
7. I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
8. I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.
9. I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?
10. I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
11. I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
12. If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.
13. I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
14. Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
15. Marriage equality changed life for people.
16. My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
17. Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
18. Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
19. People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
20. The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
21. The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
22. The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
23. There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
24. Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
25. Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Famous Quotes By Brian Tracy

 

1. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
2. Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
3. Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
4. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
5. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
6. If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
7. Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
8. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
9. Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
10. Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
11. People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
12. Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
13. The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
14. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
15. The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
16. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
17. Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
18. Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
19. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Famous Quotes By Joseph Campbell

 

1. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
2. Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
3. Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
4. Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
5. God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
6. I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
7. I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
8. I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
9. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
10. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
11. Love is a friendship set to music.
12. Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
13. One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
14. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
15. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
16. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
17. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
18. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
19. What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
20. When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
21. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
22. Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Famous Quotes By Andrew Jackson

 

1. As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
2. Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
3. Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
4. Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
5. I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
6. It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
7. It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
8. Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
9. Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
10. Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
11. One man with courage makes a majority.
12. Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
13. Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
14. The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
15. The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
16. The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
17. The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
18. The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
19. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
20. War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
21. We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Famous Quotes By Malcolm X

 

1. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
2. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
3. I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
4. I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.
5. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
6. If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
7. If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
8. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
9. In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
10. My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
11. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
12. Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
13. Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
14. The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
15. The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
16. There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
17. Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
18. Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
19. You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
20. You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
21. You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
22. You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Famous Quotes By Joe Biden

 

1. A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
2. America doesn't have health insurance.
3. For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
4. Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
5. I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
6. I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
7. I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
8. Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
9. Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
10. My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
11. My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
12. Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
13. Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
14. The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
15. The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
16. The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
17. There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
18. There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
19. This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.
20. This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
21. We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
22. Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!
23. We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
24. You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Famous Quotes By Jesse Ventura

 

1. All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
2. Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
3. Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
4. Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
5. I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
6. I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
7. I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
8. I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
9. I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
10. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
11. Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
12. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
13. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
14. Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
15. Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
16. The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
17. There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
18. We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
19. Wrestling is ballet with violence.