To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small degree of it.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.
We were directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Delay is preferable to error.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God.
Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Theodore Roosevelt
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
There is a homely adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Woodrow Wilson
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. (То, что крестьянин может стать королем, еще не делает королевство демократическим)
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
The first duty of the law is to keep sound the society it serves.
Justice has nothing to do with expediency.
The world must be safe for democracy.
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
Only the peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic modern nation that it has free and independent labor unions.
Harry Truman
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from.
It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break. It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
The responsibility of great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
It 's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
I never give them hell. I just tell them the truth, and they think it is hell.
