Desire Quote by Louis D. Brandeis

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in…

— James Madison

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon…

— John Quincy Adams

It's important when you're in government that you're held to higher standards because you're actually making decisions that affect the public.

— Rachel Reeves

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to…

— Aristotle

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence…

— James Madison

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements;…

— James Madison

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

— Nina Turner

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things…

— John Stuart Mill

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy and justice.

— Henry Giroux

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may…

— Theodore Roosevelt

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems…

— Joshua K. Ingalls