Logo
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conser

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Government
category

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. – Louis Brandeis

Category:
Government

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. – Dee Dee Myers

Category:
Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Government

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

Its amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life. – Sherry Stringfield

Category:
amazing

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. – Christopher Columbus

Category:
Morning

He that seeks trouble never misses. – English Proverb

Category:
Delinquency

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs

Category:
Promises