Quotes About Dependence

We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.

A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.

With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.