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Government Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth…
- The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they…
- The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
- [Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good…
- The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.…
- There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;…
- The object of government is the welfare of the people.
- The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.
- It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to…
- These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive…
- In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost…
- The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed…
- Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on…
- It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under…
- The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the…
- Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
- The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt
- Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to…
- Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and…
- In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
- The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
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