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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson
There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.
-- Jessica Lange
It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.
-- C. S. Lewis
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
-- Abraham Lincoln
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
-- John B. Orr
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
-- Adlai Stevenson
The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.
-- Gladys Pyle, Senator (1890-1989)
Democracy and capitalism have very different beliefs about the proper distribution of power. One believes in a completely equal distribution of political power, 'one man, one vote', while the other believes that it is the duty of the economically fit to drive the unfit out of business and into economic extinction. 'Survival of the fittest' and inequalities in purchasing power is what capitalist efficiency is all about. Individuals and firms become efficient to be rich. To put it in its starkest form, capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery. The American South had such a system for more than two centuries. Democracy is not comparable with slavery.
-- Lester Thurow
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
-- Gore Vidal
We need to rethink our position in the world. We need to stop sending weapons to countries that oppress other people. We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
-- Howard Zinn
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
-- Aristotle
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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Democracy is the ultimate, positive revolution because it gives each and every individual the power to control their lives. And we can work together to create a just, sustainable world.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his or her own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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