Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 65 Executive Orders quotesExecutive Orders QuotesExecutive Orders Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes War is the trade of Kings.~ John Dryden I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.~ Frederick the Great If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.~ Erich Fromm We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.~ Rowan Gaither The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.~ William Henry Harrison Without law and order our nation cannot survive.~ Adolf Hitler The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.~ Aldous Huxley Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.~ Aldous Huxley It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.~ Andrew Jackson No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.~ Thomas Jefferson The concentrating [of powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.~ Thomas Jefferson Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.~ Thomas Jefferson One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Having so pledged myself, and having been elected to my senatorship upon such pledge, and not having been elected to create an organization to which we would give a promise, either express or implied, that it would have the authority to send our boys all over the Earth, I cannot support the Charter. I believe it is fraught with danger to the American people and to American institutions.~ William Langer I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it.~ Abraham Lincoln My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.~ Abraham Lincoln Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.~ John Locke Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.~ General Douglas MacArthur War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.~ James Madison Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.~ Neil A. McDonald Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print