[Quote No.34270] Need Area: Friends > General "Republic: A form of government in which power is explicitly vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives.
Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed. Democracy implied direct rule by the people, all of whom were equal, whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person. In the early American republic, for example, the requirement that voters own property and the establishment of institutions such as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will." - American Heritage dictionary
[Quote No.34284] Need Area: Friends > General "I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America [or any other country for that matter] is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get [more, sometimes even] 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag [if there is any trouble, and then rational people, naturally, have a hard time defending the country against the charge of 'imperialism', either corporate or political]." - Major General Smedley Butler U.S. Major General Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.34286] Need Area: Friends > General "The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies." - Lester Bowles Pearson
[Quote No.34287] Need Area: Friends > General "We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being." - Henry David Thoreau
[Quote No.34310] Need Area: Friends > General "Somebody is always telling us in the paper how to prevent war. There is only one way in the world to prevent war and that is for every nation to tend to its own business. Trace any war and you will find some nation was trying to tell some other nation how to run their business. All these nations are interfering with some other nation’s personal affairs but with an eye to business. Why don’t we let the rest of the world act like it wants to." - Will Rogers
[Quote No.34320] Need Area: Friends > General "The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen." - Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
[Quote No.34325] Need Area: Friends > General "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.... [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and ... degeneracy of manners and of morals.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare...." - James Madison 'Political Observations', April 20, 1795. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.34331] Need Area: Friends > General "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it be called." - Samuel Smiles
[Quote No.34337] Need Area: Friends > General "Establishment intellectuals are in high dudgeon at the use of terms like 'socialism' and 'fascism' to describe President Obama’s program of government takeovers of automobile companies; the extension of federal control over banking, financial services, local schools, energy production, health care, and the internet; and 'spread the wealth' tax-and-spend policies. But Herbert Hoover and Ronald Reagan had a point when they pointed to similarities between Mussolini’s fascism and FDR’s New Deal. And, as I wrote in a review of Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s 'Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939', Mussolini saw the connection, too: In a laudatory [complimentary] review of [F.D.] Roosevelt’s 1933 book 'Looking Forward', Mussolini wrote, 'Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices [as in a free market]. ... Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism [in that state power becomes more important than individual freedom and responsibility - which is the definition of statism, whether that is in its communist, socialist or fascist form]." - David Boaz Past President of the U.S. Libertarian Party and author. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.34341] Need Area: Friends > General "A good neighbor is a found treasure." - Chinese Proverb
[Quote No.34345] Need Area: Friends > General "One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well." - Louis Kronenberger
[Quote No.34402] Need Area: Friends > General "Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men [and women]." - Herbert Clark Hoover
[Quote No.34408] Need Area: Friends > General "The best way of learning to be an independent [individual or] sovereign state is to be an independent [individual or] sovereign state." - Kwame Nkrumah
[Quote No.34413] Need Area: Friends > General "[Statism whether in the form of Communism, socialism or] Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans who have been working to commit this [or any] country to the rule of the bureaucratic state; interfering in the affairs of the states and cities; taking part in the management of industry and finance and agriculture; assuming the role of great national banker and investor, borrowing billions every year and spending them on all sorts of projects through which such a government can paralyze opposition and command public support; marshaling great armies and navies at crushing costs to support [the state and its government as well as] the industry of war and preparation for war which will become our nation’s greatest industry; and adding to all this the most romantic adventures in global planning, regeneration, and domination, all to be done under the authority of a powerfully centralized government in which the executive will hold in effect all the powers, with Congress reduced to the role of a debating society." - John T. Flynn 'As We Go Marching', 1944. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.34421] Need Area: Friends > General "Politicians campaign in poetry (making inspirational promises) but govern in prose (managing practical realities)." - Political Saying
[Quote No.34432] Need Area: Friends > General "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car." - unknown
[Quote No.34449] Need Area: Friends > General "Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod." - Aristophanes
[Quote No.34455] Need Area: Friends > General "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." - Eugene J. Mccarthy
[Quote No.34492] Need Area: Friends > General "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance [or in other words 'freedom']." - Brian Tracy
[Quote No.34503] Need Area: Friends > General "Without virtue there is no such thing as a great man; without rights there is no such thing as a great nation." - Alexis de Tocqueville
[Quote No.34505] Need Area: Friends > General "The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies." - Herbert Spencer
[Quote No.34508] Need Area: Friends > General "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." - Thomas Paine
[Quote No.34512] Need Area: Friends > General "Maybe we have so long ridiculed authority in the family and discipline in education and decency in conduct and law in the state that the freedom we fought so hard for has brought us close to chaos. [What has been missing from the promotion of freedom has been the stressing that Freedom is not license to do anything. True freedom encompasses the obligation to manage ourselves responsibly, as we would wish others to do too. Any other conception is a foolish corruption and degradation of the true meaning of responsible freedom that the wise have always correctly advocated.]" - Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970), Legendary football coach. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.34524] Need Area: Friends > General "We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. [Politicians have always resorted to these deceptions to convince the public of the justice and need for war. It behooves responsible voting citizens to not cowtow to this public relations onslaught but to demand overwhelming proof before asking our treasured youth to be maimed for life or die.]" - Walter Lippmann former advisor to Woodrow Wilson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.34530] Need Area: Friends > General "Bondage [and lack of freedom] is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes." - W. Clement Stone