Government Quotes

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

The people will save their government,

if the government itself will allow them.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

Government of the people,

by the people,

for the people,

shall not perish from the Earth.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation

will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The government, whether state or central, is elected.

That means we have a responsibility to elect

the right kind of leaders.