Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 1389 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.~ Calvin Coolidge It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. ~ Calvin Coolidge Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.~ Calvin Coolidge Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.~ Calvin Coolidge Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.~ Calvin Coolidge We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.~ Calvin Coolidge If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.~ Calvin Coolidge Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.~ James Fenimore Cooper Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.~ James Fenimore Cooper The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.~ Abraham Cowley To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.~ William Cowper The holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.~ Patrick Cox In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.~ Nelson Antrim Crawford There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.~ Davy Crockett I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.~ Davy Crockett The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion. When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established.~ Crockett v. Sorenson It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.~ Walter Cronkite There is a de facto “secret government” operating nationally and internationally and involved in the highest circles of the U.S. government, exercising an impact over domestic policies and economics ranging between extreme influence to, at times, outright control. This extreme influence to outright control naturally includes the Presidency. The de facto “secret government,” much of whose intellectual—and financial—muscle are to be found in the New York office of the CFR, the great tax-free foundations, and certain international firms and corporations.~ Mike Culbert The big thieves hang the little ones.~ Czech Proverb Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries.~ M. Robin D'Antan Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print