Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [521-540] of 1389 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I have said I do not dread industrial corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them; but there is a corporation we may all dread. That corporation is the federal government. From the aggressions of this corporation, there can be no safety, if it is allowed to go beyond the well defined limits of its powers. I dread nothing so much as the exercise of ungranted and doubtful powers by the government. It is, in my opinion, the danger of dangers to the future of this country. Let us be sure to keep it always within its limits. If this great, ambitious, ever growing corporation becomes oppressive, who shall check it? If it becomes too wayward who shall control it? If it becomes unjust, who shall trust it? As sentinels of the country’s watchtower, Senators, I beseech you to watch and guard with sleepless dread, that corporation which can make all property and rights, all states and people, all liberty and hope its plaything in an hour, and its victims forever.~ Benjamin H. Hill The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.~ Adolf Hitler The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.~ Adolf Hitler Without law and order our nation cannot survive.~ Adolf Hitler The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.~ Adolf Hitler In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting – all these will be used as a means to this end.~ Adolf Hitler When we strip teachers of their professional judgment, we forfeit the educational vitality we prize. When we quell controversy for the sake of congeniality, we deprive democracy of its mentors.~ Justice Gregory Hobbs Jr. The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.~ John A. Hobson What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.~ Friedrich Hoelderlin Do we desire to be cradled, and then carried throughout life to our graves by this partisan propelled bureaucratic monstrosity? ...as individuals of sovereign dignity, are we now so terrified, bewildered, and impotent that our main purpose is to seek asylum from the potential hazards of freedom? Have we no faith in our natural strengths and abilities?~ Sergei Hoff Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.~ Eric Hoffer [T]he greatest problem facing the United States today is not racism; it is the disappearance of the can-do attitude that built the country, ... We’ve lost the sense of individual responsibility for our problems, and that’s bad enough. But what’s worse, we’re losing faith in our ability to solve our problems. This acquired sense of helplessness is catastrophic, and it has paralyzed large swaths of the American public – rural, urban and suburban. … Encouraging dependence upon government not only creates generations of helpless people; it inures them to government’s ineffectiveness.~ Laura Hollis For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from bondage of irrational fear.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. We felt, we still feel, the passion of life to it's top. In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print