Our Rulers Quotes

23 Our Rulers quotes by 14 unique authors

Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An… — Edward Abbey
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us… — James Madison
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest,… — Thomas Jefferson
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest… — Arthur Lynch
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Thomas Jefferson
God is the one who chooses our rulers — Katherine Harris
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state… — Garry Wills
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… — Thomas Jefferson
We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us. — Dhirubhai Ambani
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity… — John Cowper Powys
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. — Henry David Thoreau
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion… — Thomas Jefferson
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not… — Thomas Jefferson
...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt,… — Thomas Jefferson
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the… — Jacob G. Hornberger
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall… — Thomas Jefferson
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or… — Thomas Jefferson
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him,… — Rebecca West
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government… — Gore Vidal
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry… — Alfred Korzybski

Who Wrote These Our Rulers Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 23 Our Rulers Quotes as follows: