Blood Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be…

— H. L. Mencken

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision…

— Herbert V. Prochnow

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the…

— Samuel Adams

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the…

— James Buchanan

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but…

— John F. Kennedy

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes,…

— Walter Lippmann

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by…

— James Madison

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist.…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“. . . a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea of continuity,…

— Edmund Burke

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened…

— Caleb Cushing