Benevolence Quote by John Updike

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that…

— John Ralston Saul

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the…

— Jeff Cooper

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for…

— Robert Toombs

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob… [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep the Confederacy…

— Heather Cox Richardson

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth…

— Joseph Sobran

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

— Benjamin Disraeli