I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector’s work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.