| Author |
Quotes |
| J Bartlett Brebner | Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. |
| J Edgar Hoover | Justice is incidental to law and order. |
| J F Clarke | A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. |
| J K Gressett | God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials. |
| J W Fulbright | In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. |
| Jack Anderson | The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. |
| Jakob Burckhardt | It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.". |
| James A Garfield | All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. |
| James Alexander Reed | We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years. |
| James Brady | For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments. |
| James Carville | This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last 3 presidential elections do that? |
| James F Byrnes | The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that "one man is as good as another;" a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | ...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. |
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