Attitude Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state.…

— Lord Acton

“fundamentally, people do not prefer independent thought and the accompanying responsibility, but rather orders, subordination, and the accompanying exemption from responsibility. In a popular…

— Yoshiki Tanaka

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at…

— H. L. Mencken

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In his essays on the need for executive-branch vigor, Hamilton continually invoked the king of England as an example of what should be avoided,…

— Ron Chernow

“No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from…

— Socrates

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account.…

— Herodotus

“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and…

— George Friedman

Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself…

— Grover Cleveland