Politics Quotes

"We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us."

"To vote is not a right given, but a right denied unless we fight for it."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may impose their will on the remaining forty-nine."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have."

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government."

"I own that I am not a friend to energetic government. It is always oppressive."

"Well, I'll tell you what I think. I think that 'women's rights' is going to be the next great question."

"The Constitution as written was defective and called for the wisdom of sober reformation."

"Every nation has an inherent right to tax itself as it sees fit without external interference."

"We must make a choice between order with some freedom or chaos with none."

"A government that fears its people is a government unworthy of their allegiance."

"The art of governing is the art of listening to all while serving the good of all."

"The constitution is not a list of permissions but a framework for restraint."

"The most dangerous tyranny is that which hides behind the mask of necessity."

"The heart of patriotism is not blind allegiance but thoughtful service."

"The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government is in itself something so commanding in the contemplation."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

"Mankind when left alone are unfit to govern themselves."

"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible."

"There is a natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny."

"I have always given it as my decided opinion, and I shall continue to give it as such, that the form of government which commences with the people is more apt to be just."

"In order to assure the continuance of the government we have established, we must keep it within its proper bounds."

"It is a sobering fact that politics are often decided by those who are least qualified to decide them."

"I declare that woman's voice must be heard in the councils of the nation."

"I'm going to put you all back in Africa."

"The colored people of this country have been cheated out of their civil rights."