"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
― Stephen Ambrose
Topic(s):
Government
More From Stephen Ambrose
- "Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress."
- "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
- "World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism."
More In Government
- "Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we’d all probably be better for it too."― John Bolton
- "The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."― John Adams
- "I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I’m not a believer in laissez-faire."― Vince Cable