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"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?" Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society." Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free." Bhagavad Gita 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government." Barry Morris Goldwater 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win." Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management." Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." Alexander Hamilton 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works." Robert Hewison 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned." Herbert Clark Hoover 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society." Shirley Mount Hufstedler 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty." Charles Evans Hughes 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." Hubert H. Humphrey 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." Robert Maynard Hutchins 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own." William Ralph Inge Rate this Quote
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." Thomas Jefferson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." Thomas Jefferson 4.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
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