Quotes about Society
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
- David O. McKay
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
- Mark Twain
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
- Ronald Reagan
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
- Calvin Coolidge
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
- George Washington
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
- Francis Chan