#political

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗

— Kevin Alan Lee

#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#discover #entire #entire universe #equal #equal measure

It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge. ↗

— Livy

#political-philosophy #political-science #speeches #war #love

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." (1962) ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#political-rights #protest #revolution #violence #violence

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#political-philosophy #politics #liberty

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #liberty

As government expands, liberty contracts. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#political-philosophy #politics #scope-of-government #liberty

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master. ↗

— George Washington

#liberty #political-philosophy #scope-of-government #liberty

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#political #profiteering #treason #military

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill ↗

— Ellen Brazer

#espionage #historical-novel #history #holocaust #intrigue