The Deterioration of Government

The deterioration of every government begins with
the decay of the principles on which it was founded
~Charles-Louis de Secondat

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• “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
  

• “They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” ~John Adams (1775)
  

• “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” ~Thomas Jefferson (1781)
  

• “Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?” ~Thomas Jefferson (1801)
  

• Society … must repose on principles that do not change” ~Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748
  

• ““Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.” ” ~Vladimir Lenin
  

• “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves” ~Vladimir Lenin
  

• “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” ~Vladimir Lenin
  

• The goal of socialism is communism! ~Vladimir Lenin
  

• “America follows no such delusion as a place in the sun for the strong by the destruction of the weak. America seeks rather, by giving of her strength for the service of the weak, a place in eternity.” ~Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge