Quotes

When the citizens contribute more to the nation than they take from it, the nation thrives.
When they take more than they contribute the nation withers
This should be understood and honored by it’s citizens. – Larry Stirling, San Diego

If one person can be allowed to determine for them self what is law, every person can. That means
first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. – Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1946

If we don’t make government responsive to the people, we don’t make it believable.
And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy. – Gerald R. Ford, 1971

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first
and only legitimate object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson, 1809

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim,
and to which all institutions must be sacrificed. – James Madison

Nothing happens unless first a dream. – Carl Sandburg, 1970

Give someone the secure possession of a bleak rock and they will turn it into a garden;
give them a nine year lease of a garden and they will convert it into a desert. – Arthur Young, 1787