Choose Quote by John Witherspoon

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

— Hans F. Sennholz

“Perhaps the most crucial choice we make in life is who to trust.”

— Stewart Stafford

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

— Alexander Hamilton

“Such men depend solely upon two very uncertain and unstable things: the will and the Fortune of him who granted them the state. But…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.”

— Will Durant

“He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on…

— Oliver Bullough

“Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause, and though…

— Chris DeRose

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice…

— Edmund Burke

“Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.”

— Brian de Haaff

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they…

— Woodrow Wilson