“We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.” ImportantMatterGovernmentGloryResponsibleArchitectUgliness Author:Charlie Pierce
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.” MenWarGovernmentCommonRaceObjectsGloryRulersCommon Man Author:William Beveridge
“I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.” PeopleMenWorldMayCountryGovernmentChoicesHeavenLibertyGloryConstitutionFoundationFavorsSavedSupremeThank GodRulersSolemnSettlement Author:John Hancock
“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” ReasonGovernmentJusticePrinciplesRevolutionEternalGloryTyrannyRighteousBoastEnmity Author:John Hancock
“The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document - false to the name American.” MenDoeStatesGovernmentNamesRightsTeachingDutyOughtCitizensGloryResourcesIndependenceDoctrineProtectedDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceCorresponding Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.” FirstsGovernmentLawGloryEmpiresSubmitThyselfMonarchs Author:Bias of Priene