Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [521-540] of 583 President quotesPresident QuotesPresident Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.~ Harry S. Truman I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.~ Harry S. Truman You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.~ Harry S. Truman I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.~ Harry S. Truman If you cannot convince them, confuse them.~ Harry S. Truman Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.~ Harry S. Truman It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.~ Harry S. Truman I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.~ Harry S. Truman There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.~ Harry S. Truman Our system is changing and [Congress] is the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago rejected by the framers. ... A dominant presidency has occurred with very little congressional opposition. Indeed, when President Obama pledged to circumvent Congress, he received rapturous applause from the very body that he was proposing to make practically irrelevant. Now many members are contesting the right of this institution to even be heard in federal court. ... This body is moving from self-loathing to self-destruction in a system that is in crisis. The president's pledge to effectively govern alone is alarming, and what is most alarming is his ability to fulfill that pledge. When a president can govern alone, he can become a government unto himself, which is precisely the danger the framers sought to avoid.~ Jonathan Turley When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.~ Sun Tzu Letter to the President of the United States from an American Indian: 'Be careful with your immigration laws. We were careless with ours.'~ Unknown Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich.~ Leon Uris The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.~ Voltaire All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.~ George Washington If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George Washington If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George Washington May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.~ George Washington No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.~ George Washington The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.~ George Washington Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print