It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Quote by Wendell L Willkie

Topics: Government Quotes

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are...

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are...

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad...

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad...

Education is the mother of leadership.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in...

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in...

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief...

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief...

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the...

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the...

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right...

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right...

Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution....

Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution....

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time...

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time...

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever...

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever...

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions.

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions.

Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government.

Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government.

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent...

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent...

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

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

The less government we have the better.

The less government we have the better.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else...

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else...

The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a...

The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a...

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more...

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more...

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely...

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely...