"Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!"

Politics, Government, Leadership, Power, Justice

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"Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!"

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Politics, Power, Government, Class, Wealth

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Politics, Peace, War, Values, Question

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

Politics, Change, Nations, Poverty

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Politics, Danger, War, Power

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, Enemy, Health, Government, Safety

"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Politics, Conservatism, Denial, Ideology, Smile

"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, Corruption, Opinion, Government

"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Politics, Improvement, Country, Leadership

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest."

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"The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world."

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"You can't judge your parenting by the choices of your kids."

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"To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God."

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"A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity."

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"Execution is something, but timing is everything."

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"Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin."

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"Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially."

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"A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends."

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"Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share."

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