"A people contending for life and liberty..." - Quote by George Washington
A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects.
More by George Washington
“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.”
“I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.”
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
More on Liberty
“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”
“I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to secure happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own.”
“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”
More on Self Interest
“In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.”
“Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.”
“The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.”