"There is no question that we have failed to live up to the dreams of the founding fathers many times and in many places. Sometimes we do better than others. But all in all, the one thing we must be on guard against is thinking that because of this, the system has failed. The system has not failed. Some human beings have failed the system." Ronald Reagan
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." Alexis de Toqueville
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." Dwight D. Eisenhauer
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight D. Eisenhauer
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership." Dwight D. Eisenhauer
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent. Vol. i. p. 526.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke, Speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana
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