politician Quotes
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In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.
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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
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Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.
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Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
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Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.
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Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.
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We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.