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Related Topic(s): God; Government; Man; Power; United States

The Government of the United States is secular. It derives its power from the consent of man. It is a Government with which God has nothing whatever to do.
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Robert Ingersoll

Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 â€“ July 21, 1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Free-thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. Wiki)

Related Topic(s): GROWTH DEVELOPMENT; Good Will; Government; Men Women

Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, y...
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Andrew Jackson

Related Topic(s): Government; Satire

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Will Rogers

American cowboy, motion picture actor (50 silent films and 21 talkies), vaudeville performer(including the Ziegfeld Follies), social commentator (more than 4000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns),radio personality, political wit and humorist."Oklahoma's favorite son." He died at age 55 in a small plane crash.

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Related Topic(s): Authority; Government; Liberty; Power; Responsibility; Top Down

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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Woodrow Wilson

Related Topic(s): FEAR; Government; Money; Social Justice; Truth; Values

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms, he was often referred to by his initials, FDR. Roosevelt won his first of four presidential elections in 1932, while the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression. FDR's combination of optimism and economic activism is often credited with keeping the country's economic crisis from developing into a political crisis. He led the United States through most of World War II, and died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage, shortly before the war ended.

Roosevelt named his approach to the economic situation the New Deal; it consisted of legislation pushed through Congress as well as executive orders. Executive orders included the bank holiday declared when he first came to office; legislation created new government agencies, such as the Works Progress Administration and the National Recovery Administration, with the intent of creating new jobs for the unemployed. Other legislation provided direct assistance to individuals, such as the Social Security Act.

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Related Topic(s): Encouragement; Evil; Good; Government; Men Women; Nothingness; Triumph

All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. --- Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke PC (12 January 1729 - 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his opposition to the French Revolution. It led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro-French-Revolution "New Whigs" led by Charles James Fox. Burke lived before the terms "conservative" and "liberal" were used to describe political ideologies. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the nineteenth-century and since the twentieth-century he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.

Related Topic(s): Bottom-up; Change; Government

Change happens from the bottom up, from the grassroots...
You don't just count on governments, on officials. You count on people.
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Barack Obama

He began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination, becoming the first major party African American candidate for president. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.