Body Quote by Sam Houston

“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.”

— Jon Meacham

“Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Was there ever a clique of such unprincipled men? Their love of office is their controlling passion. In despite of them however we shall…

— John Tyler

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention." [ Shrub Flubs His Dub…

— Molly Ivins

“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

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just…

— Chris Bell

To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the…

— Bill W. Clayton

Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens,…

— Bob Taft

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his…

— Theodore Roosevelt