Quotes about Government and Friendship

Quotes about Government and Friendship
Government Quotes

Please enjoy these Quotes about Government and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.

Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner

We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead

The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela

The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy

DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen

In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein

Government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from this Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln

Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson

So confident am I in the intentions,
as well as wisdom, of the government,
that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done,
either cannot, or ought not to be done.
- Thomas Jefferson

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs

The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Thank you for visiting: Quotes about Government and Friendship - Government Quotes.

Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

Friendship Quotes

Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The Philosopher of Happiness" - is the author of 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love, co-author of Simply An Inspired Life, speaker, personal coach, and creator of the popular Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote free email.>

Quotes about Government and FriendshipGovernment Quotes

Friendship Quotes

Quotes about Government and Friendship
Government Quotes