Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Theodore Roosevelt

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Cassandra Clare

You don’t sound very patriotic,” observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?” “Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—” “You’re in a charming temper, aren’t you, William?” interrupted Jem, though there was no edge to his voice.

Grover Cleveland

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

George H. W. Bush

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

George H. W. Bush

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Edmund Burke

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Donald Trump

Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.

Ally Carter

I don't want tea, I want justice!

Alfred North Whitehead

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

Albert Pike

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

Albert Einstein

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Alexander Hamilton

The first duty of society is justice.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Thomas Jefferson

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

John Sayles

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Melissa Bean

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.