Deeds Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deeds Feds Good deeds Good will Governors Ifs Leadership
Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master. — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
Mr. Governor imagine if it was your kids that starved, imagine your kids gotta sling crack to survive. — Nas Copy Share
“Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge… — Hamzat Haruna Ribah Copy Share Image
If the politicians did there job right, there would not be starving, poor people on this earth right now! — Ratedmusic Copy Share Image
“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a superfluity. Ambition is evil to the restless bosom it inhabits, to the innumerable victims who are dragged by its ruthless thirst for infamy, to expire in every variety of anguish, to the inhabitants of the country it depopulates,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“He who will not work shall not eat.' Yet, so strong is the propensity to be thought 'gentlemen;' so general is this desire amongst… — William A. (William Andrus) Alcott Copy Share Image
A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Donald P. Ryan Copy Share Image
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image