Quotes about Empowerment
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
- Alexander Hamilton
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
- Jesse Jackson
The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
- Ronald Reagan
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
- Mahatma Gandhi
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
- Margaret Mead
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
- Herbert Hoover
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
- Malcolm X
Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson