Being the best Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another…

— Ron Paul

“Charles I. knew that Presbyterianism is the friend of civil freedom, and that Prelacy in the Church will more readily consent to despotism in…

— Various

To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys… Whenever the…

— Jedidiah Morse

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

— James Madison

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own…

— Henry George

The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter parent' to…

— Ben Sasse

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to…

— John Adams

In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common…

— Zachary Taylor

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

— Coventry Patmore

Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond…

— James Madison

“Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance.”

— Bryant McGill

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld