Henry Clay (1777–1852) American politician from Kentucky
Speech at the public dinner at Fowler's Garden, Lexington, Kentucky, May 16, 1829, printed in Niles' Weekly Register, Vol. 36 (1829), at p. 399.
“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”
Speech (13 February 1835)
1830s
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Columbia University Inaugural Address http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf (12 October 1948) <br class="br">1940s
“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
No. 13
1790s, Discourses on Davila (1790)
Context: Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the wolf. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest. The great art of law-giving consists in balancing the poor against the rich in the legislature, and in constituting the legislative a perfect balance against the executive power, at the same time that no individual or party can become its rival. The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. The executive and the legislative powers are natural rivals; and if each has not an effectual control over the other, the weaker will ever be the lamb in the paws of the wolf. The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative. Rivalries must be controlled, or they will throw all things into confusion; and there is nothing but despotism or a balance of power which can control them.
William Harcourt (1827–1904) British politician
Speech in Oxford town hall (30 December 1872), quoted in The Times (31 December 1872), p. 5
Charles Hodge (1797–1878) American Presbyterian theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 226.
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
"The Contagion of Ideas", p. 44. A speech delivered to a group of teachers (Summer 1952); not previously published
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Sandra Day O'Connor (1930) Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Striking down the "Take-Title" provision of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act in New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992).
Glenn Jacobs (1967) American professional wrestler and actor
4:14&#8211;4:38 <br class="br"> Glenn Jacobs's victory speech after winning race for Knox County Mayor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC68lyf3-vw (2018)
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)
1770s