Conservatives have historically seen people falling through the cracks in society and said, That's the way things work, survival of the fittest. Liberals see people falling through the cracks and say, We've got to do something about those people falling through the cracks, so we need a strong government that can provide programs and assist those people. Populists say there shouldn't be any cracks; let's fix them. —Jim Hightower More about this quote Tags: politics society government conservative liberal populism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You find lots of little things going on in every community in the country. If there is a world here in a hundred years, it will not be due to any big organization of any sort, no big political group, no big church, no big government. It is going to be saved by millions upon millions of little organizations. It might just be that what Jesus and Jeremiah and Mohammed and Buddha talked about will come true. —Pete Seeger More about this quote Tags: politics history government Jesus community organizations churches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: politics government criticism home travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say, "Here is the sin that makes the public sin. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: sin morality government interests Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: government patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is horrifying that we have to fight our government to save the environment. —Ansel Adams More about this quote Tags: government fight environment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have a friend who has devoted most of his adult life to resisting the madness of war through actions of justice and peace. He . . . lives in poverty so as to stay below the taxation level. . . . The money he "should" have given the government over the years he has donated to peace-and-justice projects. Does he have any results to show for his efforts? Has he been effective? Hardly — at least, not by the normal calculus. His years of commitment to peacemaking have been years of steady increase in wars and rumors of wars. So how does he stay healthy and sane? How does he maintain a commitment to this sort of active life? "I have never asked myself if I was being effective," he says, "but only if I was being faithful." He judges his action not by the results it gets, but by its fidelity to his own calling and identity. —Parker J. Palmer More about this quote Tags: justice war peace identity poverty government faith calling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: poverty government wealth redistribution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. —Bob Wells More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism. —Earl Warren More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. —Gerald R. Ford More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have. —Gerald R. Ford More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy. —Gerald R. Ford More about this quote Tags: government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email