Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that rises from earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to earth over and over. But if it doesn't...
Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every...
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the ri...
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Politics, it's all corrupt!
But it is clear that no political activity can be encouraged by saying that progress is natural and inevitable; that is not a reason for being active, but rather a reason for being lazy.
To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character.
It's not only the politician that can govern and lead a nation
When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
A sure way a country can develop is through a true development of the masses. Yes! A sure way to ensure a true freedom of the people is for the people take up their own destiny into their hands and bo...
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spi...
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual...
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