Harold L. Ickes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No oneâ€¦gets left behind. An instrument of good.
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
All my life I have fought corruption.
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
All one great big lie.

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