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Welcome to Advanced Placement

American Government and

Politics

George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous

servant and a fearful master.

Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

JKF

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is

experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build

greatly.

Socrates

. There is only one good,

knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

Aristotle

Man is by nature a civic animal

Cicero

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting

at elections is the best method.

[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper

scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.] Cicero (Marcus Tullius

Cicero)Source: De Legibus (III, 15)

Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many

rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by

your inferiors.

George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.