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18 Matches Found.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, and labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. (speech before the Naval War College, 1897)
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) American Attorney General, Senator
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest
walls of oppression and injustice - Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, 1966.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States
We must dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.
- Al Gore (1948-) American 45th Vice-President of the United States
Defeat might serve as well as victory to shape and soul and let the glory out.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Nothing doth hurt more in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1694-1774
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
- Grover Cleveland
What's the use of being elected or re-elected if you don't stand for something?
- Grover Cleveland
When we consider that the theory of our institutions guarantees to every citizen the full enjoyment of all the fruits of his industry and enterprise, with only such deduction as may be his share toward the careful and economical maintenance of the government which protects him, it is plain that the exaction of more than this is indefensible extortion and a culpable betrayal of American fairness and justice.
- Grover Cleveland
The wrong inflicted upon those who bear the burden of national taxation, like other wrongs, multiplies a brood of evil consequences. The public treasury, which should only exist as a conduit conveying the people's triubute to its legitimate objects of expenditure, becomes a hoarding place for money needlessly withdrawn from trade and the people's use, thus crippling our national energies, suspending our country's development, preventing investment in productive enterprise, threatening financial disturbance, and inviting schemes of public plunder.
- Grover Cleveland
It will not do to neglect this situation because its dangers are not now palaply imminent and apparent. The exist no less certainly, and await the unforseen and unexpected occasion when suddenly they will be precipitated upon us.
- Grover Cleveland
We know that we have espoused the cause of right and justice. We know that we have not permitted duty to country to wait upon expediency. We know that we have not trafficked our principles for success. We know that we have not decieved the people with false promises and pretenses. And we know that we have not corrupted or betrayed the poor with the money of the rich.
- Grover Cleveland
an unjust tariff which banishes from many humble homes the comforts of life, in order that palaces of wealth and luxury may more abound.
- Grover Cleveland
do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in attempts to gain popular support by cunning devices and shrewd manipulation.
- Matthew Lyon, Congressman
The public welfare is swallowed up in a continual grasp for power, in an unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation or selfish avarice.
- Governor George Clinton
description of the proposed capitol at the Constitutional Convention: "ambition with idleness, baseness with pride, the thirst of riches without labor...flattery...treason..perfidy, but above all the perpetual ridicule of virtue."
- Gaskell - defying authority
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and creully used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
- circa 63 B.C.
"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom
should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign
lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt." Cicero,
circa 63 B.C.
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