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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Presidential Statement on the Observation of Law Day (30 April 1958)
- Laws
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Letter to his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower (8 November 1954)
- Politics
As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so⁠—we believe⁠—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
- Justice
- Laws
The right to change the government by the ballot box and not the barrel of a gun; perhaps the best definition of a democracy.
Elizabeth II1926–2022During a speech to President Gerald Ford celebrating the 200th anniversary of American independence.
- Democracy
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries…unite!
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848), Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph)
Democracy would be wholly valueless to the proletariat if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property and ensuring the livelihood of the proletariat.
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Principles of Communism (1847)
- Democracy
Princes are not bound to give an account of their Actions but to God alone.
Charles I of England1600–1649Declaration on the dissolution of Parliament (10 March 1628)
- Power
The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism.
Niall Fergusonborn 1964Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003), Introduction, p. xxvii
- History
Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity — and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Richard Feynman1918–1988What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988) (From a 1963 letter to his wife Gweneth, written while attending a gravity conference in Communist-era Warsaw.)
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Letters to George Sand, 4 or 5 October 1871
- Democracy
I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
Gerald Ford1913–2006During hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, on his nomination to be Vice-President (15 November 1973)
- Truth & Lies
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
- America
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
- Truth & Lies
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (15 April 1970); recorded in the Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913 and.
- Laws
- Politics
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Île des Pingouins [Penguin Island] (1908), Book VI: Les Temps Modernes, Ch. II: Pyrot
- Democracy
- Money