Help with quote re: questioning government

[LynzM]

I can't find that quote, the one about how it's not unpatriotic to question our government, but our duty to do so. I think it might have been Jefferson, but google isn't helping me out on this one. Any takers? I know some people here have it in their sig lines...

[mrboba1]

1. Teddy Roosevelt

look for the DUer with the approximate screen name : T Roosevelt

I did have it on my cube wall, but it's magically gone now...
:shrug:

[mrboba1]

2. here it is

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

[elehhhhna]

3. It is the duty of every citizen to protect her country from her government

That's a goodie, too. Not sure who wrote it, though.

~ Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of
Western civilization: " I think it would be a good idea."~

[LynzM]

6. LOL

Sad that that's funny, though. But true...

[LynzM]

5. Hrm...

Doesn't read like I remember it, maybe I'm thinking of another quote, or remembering that one wrong. But that one is good, too, thank you!

[Demit]

4. Also, quotes from: Lincoln, Jefferson, Taft, Eisenhower, MacArthur...

and two I threw in at the end, for comic relief.

Abraham Lincoln: "The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert it!"

Thomas Jefferson: "Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master."

“...Ohio Senator Robert Taft—and I never thought I'd be quoting Robert Taft—who said two weeks after Pearl Harbor had been attacked, I believe there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government...” --Julian Bond to NAACP June 2, 2004

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels--men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." --Dwight D. Eisenhower, May 31, 1954

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it..." --General Douglas MacArthur, 1957


"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." - Rumsfeld February 12, 2002

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe, and what I believe I believe, what I believe is right," GWBush July 23, 2001 Reuters

[LynzM]

7. Good ones!

Thanks for finding all of those! :)

[mrboba1]

8. I added the Eisenhower one to my sig

I liked it so much...